For several years now, the creative team behind our city’s first concept store – Printa, which also serves as a silkscreen-printing studio – continually produces independently made “Printa’s Pest” maps, providing playfully illustrated graphic guides that highlight cool Budapest destinations. Recently the innovative establishment came up with something new: their latest publication depicts the thermal baths of Budapest, and just like their other charts, this map is a limited-edition screen-printed piece of art that can be appealing hung on a wall, especially since one layer was printed in gold.

Sold at Printa alongside unique apparel, gifts, and artistic posters produced on-site, the annually updated “Printa’s Pest” maps display the team’s favorite places to eat, drink, and do things with graphics and easygoing descriptions in English. Printa’s Pest is not a classic top-50 list, but instead just sums up the favorite destinations of Printa’s management and staff, who naturally visit all of them on a regular basis to provide up-to-date information.

Their latest publication highlights Budapest’s “literally hot-spots”, making this map unique in many respects. The Hungarian capital is often called the “City of Spas”, since it is rather rich in thermal waters. While this guide does not contain all thermal-bathing places and details, it is a very descriptive map that features the curiosities of iconic baths of the Hungarian spa culture. Naturally, every bath is illustrated in a different way to reflect the spas’ diverse architecture and features in quirkily recognizable ways. We hope that Printa will continue this concept with more themed maps in the future!