Spas in Budapest Spas in Budapest Thermal baths or spas in Budapest are popular tourist attractions as well as public comforts for the city's residents. One of the reasons the Romans first colonized the area immediately to the west of the River Danube and established their regional capital at Aquincum (now part of Óbuda, in northern Budapest) is so that they could utilize and enjoy the thermal springs. There are still ruins visible today of the enormous baths that were built during that period. The new baths that were constructed during the Turkish period (1541–1686) served both bathing and medicinal purposes, and some
Budapest set in Budapest are "Kontroll", "The District!", "Ein Lied von Liebe und Tod", "Sunshine", "An American Rhapsody", "As You Desire Me", "The Good Fairy", "Hanna's War", "The Journey", "Ladies in Love", "Mehbooba", "Music Box", "The Shop Around the Corner", "Zoo in Budapest", "Underworld", "" and Spy. "The Grand Budapest Hotel" (2014) is a Wes Anderson film. It was filmed in Germany and set in the fictional Republic of Zubrowka which is in the alpine mountains of Hungary. Budapest hosted many global sport event in the past, among others the 1994 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, 1997 World Amateur Boxing Championships,