Budapest’s Bath Culture Has Rules Nobody Writes Down: The Szechenyi Customs That Surprise Americans
Budapest is built on hot springs, and bathing in them is not a tourist novelty but one of the central rituals of the city, so much so that Hungarians proudly call their capital the city of spas. Walk into Szechenyi, the vast, canary-yellow, neo-baroque bathhouse that is the most famous of them all, and you …









