More than one third of Europe's mineral and thermal springs are found in Romania.
Over 70 spa towns are spread allover the country.
Health spas in ROmania use natural factors to provide relief for many medical disorders and illnesses
including rheumatism, endocrine, kidney, liver, respiratory, heart, stomach and nervous diseases
as well as nutrition, metabolism and gynecological disorders.
Natural factors are complemented - under attentive medical care - by physiotherapy, acupuncture, electrotherapy
and medicines produced from plants and minerals.
Larger spa towns include in Romania include: Bazna, Baile Felix, Borsec, Buzias, Caciulata, Calimanesti, Covasna, Eforie Nord, Govora, Baile Herculane, Mangalia, Ocna Sibiului, Olanesti, Slanic Moldova, Sovata, Tusnad and Vatra Dornei.
Baile Felix
Established in the 18th century, Baile Felix is currently Romania's town
with the greatest number of medical spa hotels, open year-round.
Thermal waters in Baile Felix - rich in oligominerals and sapropelic mud -
have proven helpful in easing the effects of rheumatism and some paralysis,
as well as gynecological afflictions and nervous disorders.
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Bazna
Town of Bazna in southern Transylvania (9 miles norts of Medias and 40 miles north of Sibiu) was founded in 1302
and known as a spa destination since 1842.
Medical spas in Bazna combine therapeutic mud and mineral waters to treat rheumatism and nervous system afflictions.
Another curative element employed by medical spas in Bazna is salt extracted locally, which is rich in iodine and bromine.
Bazna salt (Sare de Bazna) is available for puchase in most pharmacies and health stores.
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Eforie Nord
Town of Eforie Nord, located on a strip of land between Black Sea and Lake Techirghiol, is known to spa-goers from all over the world for the black, sapropelic mud (nămol ) collected from the bottom of Lake Techirghiol; Techirghiol mud have long been used as cure for arthritic, rheumatic, internal and nervous system disorders.
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Mangalia
Town if Mangalia lays on the very site where the Greek city of Callatis stood proudly, over 2,400 years ago.
The largest and spa town on the Black Sea coast, town of Mangalia is home to
medical spas that provide treatments for afflictions related to the kidneys, digestive and nervous systems, skin and liver.
Mangalia got its name from the Byzantine word Pangalia, meaning "the most beautiful".
Natural resources used by Mangalia medical spas include: sapropelic mud from Lake Techirghiol ,
sea water, sulphurous waters, and a marine bioclimate, rich in saline aerosols and solar radiation.
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Ocna SibiuluiI
Mud packing, aerosols treatments and salt water baths in lakes created after several old salt mines had been inundated, have been used here successfully in the treatment of rheumatic, dermatological, endocrine and gynecological afflictions, as well as asthma.
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Sovata
First documented at the end of the 16th century,
Sovata was mentioned as a spa town in a written document dated 1850.
Located in a dense forest in the heart of Transylvania,
Sovata features the largest heliothermal lake in Europe: Lacul Ursu (Bear Lake).
The mineral, salty, waters and mud extracted from the bottom of lake Ursu are used to treat gynecological and sterility afflictions.
Six miles south of Sovata, Praid salt mine offers a great environment for the treatment of afflictions of the respiratory system, such as asthma.
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