The long-running and sorry saga of the Rác Baths, the venerable spa complex in the Tabán, may soon be drawing to a close. Shut down permanently in the 1990s, these historic baths were given an award-winning renovation from 2007 onwards. Then everything became entangled in legal red tape.
Recently, specialist photographer Tamás Pataki accessed these Ottoman-era
buildings to capture how they looked.
Sadly, the baths have been off-limits to the general public for decades.
With the
upcoming auction, hopefully a buyer can be found to carry out the final stage
of renovation and at last open one of Budapest’s finest spas.
