Cave Bath

The Cave Bath (Hungarian: Barlangfürdő<(Hungarian: barlang ‘cave’+ is a thermal bath in a natural cave in Miskolctapolca.

The thermal water is reputed to reduce joint pain, and since it has a lower salt content than most thermal waters, people can bathe in it for much longer, practically an unlimited amount of time. The Cave Bath can be visited all year long, except for January.

The cave and the thermal spring have been known since ancient times, but Tapolca became a popular bathing place only after the Ottoman occupation of Hungary. During this time the area belonged to the Greek Orthodox abbey of Görömböly; the development of Tapolca into a bathing place was the idea of the abbot in 1711.