An ornate domed building, the town bath house, stands beside the lower wing of the Hotel Park, its entrance reached by a short flight of steps. Bare trees and a garden line the approach in front. The caption is printed only in Serbian, in both Cyrillic and Latin script, Novi Sad, Kupatilo i Hotel Park, with no Hungarian or German text at all.
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.
On the card
Újvidék Hotel Park
- Date
- 1919–1941
- Coordinates
- 45.24982, 19.82854
- Source
- Magyar Kereskedelmi és Vendéglátóipari Múzeum – képeslapok
- Credit
- Magyar Kereskedelmi és Vendéglátóipari Múzeum
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2310 × 1519 px
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