The Iodine Spa. Architect: Imre Francsek, Budapest. A sepia collotype of the symmetrical front, with an oval planted bed ringed by a gravel path in the garden and small trees along the wings.
About this place
Iodine-rich mineral water was struck here in 1897 during drilling for drinking water near the Futog forest. A spa was built from 1908 and opened in 1910, its Secession-style main buildings designed by the Budapest architect Imre Francsek. The complex, which included the Park hotel and a bathhouse, was enlarged in 1931 and remained a well-known resort into the 1960s; its central pool closed in 1977. The buildings today house the Special Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, the only specialised rheumatology institution in Vojvodina, and the whole ensemble is protected as a cultural-historical complex.
- Date
- 1910
- Coordinates
- 45.24982, 19.82854
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain (historical photograph)
- Size
- 640 × 404 px
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