Budapest's Oldest Spa Ends 70-Year Ban on Women, Angering Males
Hungarian teacher Istvan Szabo, who has visited Budapest's oldest thermal baths every month for 24 years, is preparing for unwelcome invaders: women. ``This is nonsense,'' said Szabo, 53, as he soaked in the baths on the north bank of the Danube. ``What next, they will want us to make toilets mixed-sex too? It's all just too weird.'' The Rudas, built by the Turks in the 16th century, was the last remaining men-only spa in Budapest, the home of more thermal baths than any other capital in the world. A 70-year ban on women ends this month, angering customers such as Szabo. Females will be allowed entry to the Rudas on two half-days a week after a women's magazine petitioned Mayor Gabor Demszky.
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