SPA Resorts in Romania
Started by Romans and unique in Europe, today Romania's 70 natural spas 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.
Romania is home to more than one third of Europe's mineral and thermal springs. Natural factors are complemented — under attentive medical care — by physiotherapy, acupuncture, electrotherapy and medicines produced from plants.
Romania's main SPAs include: Mangalia, Eforie Nord, Covasna, Slanic Moldova, Vatra Dornei, Borsec, Herculane, Buzias, Sovata, Bazna, Ocna Sibiului, Baile Felix, Tusnad, Calimanesti and Govora.
On January 14th 2016, the Largest Thermal Wellness Center In Europe,
known as Therme Bucharest, has been open to the public, ten minutes away
from the city.
Therme Bucharest, a 30,000 sqm wellness, relaxation and entertainment center
based on thermal waters is located 20 kilometers north of Bucharest, in
Balotesti.
Therme’s owners, Austrian group A-Heat, say this is the biggest complex of this
kind in Europe. German group Wund, which owns four such thermal centers in
Europe, has developed the project. The center’s main features are the 8 heated
pools, where the water has a constant temperature of 33 degrees Celsius.
The Therme Bucharest Park features not only thermal water pools but also the largest indoor and outdoor garden in Romania.
The garden consists of over 800,000 plants and hundreds of species of trees,
including the biggest plantation of veritable palm trees in Europe, plus the
attraction of the site – a Tree of Life that is one of the botanical rarities of the
moment, thus creating a tropical vacation setting just 10 minutes from
downtown Bucharest.
The pools are filled with thermal water that rises from a depth of 3,100 meters.
The air temperature is between 29 and 30 degrees Celsius.
The center is divided into three major sectors, each of them with a specific
theme. The Palm, as the name says, is an area dedicated to relaxation among
500 palm trees, the largest garden of this type in Europe.
The Elysium area is designed for thermal saunas and for those who would like to enjoy a nice massage. The third sector is the center of the entertainment. Here you can have fun in a pool with waves – the largest one in Romania – or you could ride down one of the many toboggan slides. And when you’re tired enough, you could stop for a drink at the pool bar.
One of the most popular SPA is the elegant Ana Aslan Health Spa center,
located on the ground floor of Ana Hotels Europa in Eforie Nord.
The SPA is a revitalization haven for the body, mind and spirit. The traditional
spa therapies using seawater and mud from the Techirghiol Lake are
complemented by innovative laser, ultrasound and ionization procedures.
Enjoy sports, spa, rehabilitation therapies, massages, facials, body toning
sessions, as well as anti-ageing and masculine revitalization treatments.
The wide space featuring a fluid design inspired by the sea boasts a complete
range of facilities: heated swimming pool, Jacuzzi, sauna, gym and treatment
rooms.
Ana Aslan Health SPA and Wellness Packages are designed to offer medical
treatments, beauty and Anti Aging Packages but also complete programs for
relaxation.
A lot of outdoor activities and day tours in the area came to fulfill the offer for
Spa and Wellness Holidays.
Ana Aslan Health Spa is a state-of-the-art temple for relaxation, health and
beauty. The stress relieving therapies and the ancient relaxation rituals are
combined with the rejuvenation and body toning procedures, given that this
center, one of the best Spa’s on the Black Sea shore, is also renowned for
treatment and rehabilitation.
In addition, Eforie Nord treatments include mud baths as well as world-famous
Gerovital and Aslavital original rejuvenation treatments.
Eforie Nord is located on the Romanian Black Sea coast, nearby Lake Techirghiol, whose waters have long been held as cure for arthritic, rheumatic, internal and nervous system disorders.
The waters of Lake Techirghiol are five times saltier than the sea.
Eforie Nord was established in 1894, when a clinic first opened here. Later, under the patronage of King Carol I (1839 – 1914), a health resort sprang up. Besides the sea air and sun, another curative factor is the rich, black, sapropelic mud – knows locally as namol – from Techirghiol Lake.
Baile Felix Spa
Established in the 18th century, Baile Felix is currently Romania's largest health
resort, open year-round.
The thermal waters found here, very rich in oligominerals, are supplemented by
sapropelic mud. This natural combination has proven helpful in easing the
effects of rheumatism and some paralysis, as well as gynecological afflictions
and nervous disorders.
Therapeutic prescriptions: Arthritis and rheumatoid disorders, Endocrine system
problems, Gynecological afflictions, Nervous system disorders, Post-injury and
post-operative rehabilitation, Posttraumatic afflictions.
The SPA is designated to offer a complete range of treatments: aerosols, aqua gym in thermal water, aromatherapy, beauty treatments with Gerovital and Aslavital anti-aging products, electrotherapy, galvanic baths, hydrotherapy, kinetotherapy, paraffin packing, warm mud baths and mud applications
The SPA offer also includes fitness and rehabilitation center, indoor thermal swimming pool, Sauna & Jacuzzi at a very reasonable prices !
Bazna Medical SPA
The health spa resort, established in 1842, features a unique combination of
therapeutic mud and mineral waters which produce excellent results in the
treatment of rheumatic and nervous system afflictions.
Another curative element is the Bazna salt, rich in iodine and bromine.
Sovata SPA Highlights
First mentioned in a 1597 document but recorded as a resort in 1850, Sovata is located at 1,600 ft. above the sea level, in the stunning forested region of Transylvania, Sovata features the heliothermal Ursu (Bear) lake – unique in Europe. The mineral waters here are highly prescribed in gynecological and sterility afflictions.
The nearby salt mine from Praid offers a suitable environment for the treatment of afflictions of the respiratory system, such as asthma.
Ocna Sibiului Medical SPA
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.
SPA facilities include: Fitness and rehabilitation centre, Indoor and
outdoor swimming pools, Sauna & Jacuzzi.
When it comes to natural cure factors, we can easily say that our
country is blessed by nature. The diversity of both thermal and
mineral springs, the therapeutic lakes, the mofettes, natural salt
mines, herbal remedies or the areas with ionized air are just a
few examples of natural factors that make Romania an
exceptional spa destination.
Mineral water springs are popular since ancient times for their
curative virtues and Romania boasts itself with about a third of
the thermal and mineral springs in Europe.
Baile Tusnad (Covasna county) is one of the most famous
resorts for its mineral springs, recommended in the treatment of
cardiovascular diseases (myocardial infarction, hypertension,
peripheral arterial disease, phlebitis, varicose veins), urinary
system diseases (kidney stones, inflammation) and related
diseases (digestive, endocrine, gynecological), but also for the
improvement of nervous system disorders (asthenic neurosis,
secondary asthenic conditions, physical and intellectual).
One of the natural riches our country is pride of is the mofette.
Through the gas baths, one can treat cardiovascular diseases,
skin diseases, gynecological and endocrine disorders, and
some musculoskeletal disorders– such as the chronic degenerative
articular rheumatism. The mofette is also recommended as
prophylaxis for people with cardiovascular risk, for those suffering
from hypertension, high cholesterol level and is also suitable for
smokers and for people who have problems with circulation and
those working in the cold. It is also known that mofetarian gas has
beneficial effects on potency, being recognized as a good natural
aphrodisiac.
Mofettes are gathered around Covasna area, so we can recommend the O3zone hotel, one of the most beautiful hotels in Baile Tunad. You can enjoy not only the healing power of mofettes but also the intense ionized air from the area and an elegant spa, in which medical therapies are combines with wellness treatments, pools, saunas, Jacuzzi.
Romania is also a blessed country when we think about the natural cure factors that co-exist in here and when it comes to therapeutic
lakes, it disposes an impressive number of 3500 lakes, of which 63 % are natural and the rest of 27 % are anthropogenic.
A large number of these lakes have special therapeutic effects, due to pharmacological and pharmacodynamic properties.
But first let’s take a look of how these lakes can be classified, depending on their genesis:
- Shore lakes - these were created by filling the mouth of a flowing river with a fluvial grind or marine cord. The therapeutic benefits are due to the mud, which helps alleviating chronic rheumatism, stimulating the immune system, relieving joint pains etc.
The most famous shore lake used for therapeutic purposes is Techirghiol, with water rich in magnesium, used in external cure.
Techirghiol is an oasis of peace, a framework for both locals and tourists relax.
Besides natural conditions, resort Techirghiol enjoys in one of the most modern
physio-therapy treatment and spa base in our country, located inside Spa and
Recovering Sanatorium Techirghiol.
Very close to the Spa and Recovering Sanatorium Techirghiol is located Saint
Mary Monastery, a spiritual oasis of tranquility and relaxation.
From the verandas filled with geraniums and roses greets us merciful nuns,
loving God and people.
Techirghiol resort benefits from the existence of special natural conditions,
embodied in the presence of sanogenic natural factors, namely: climate, healthy
mud and salt water of the lake.
Together these factors represent treasure of Techirghiol spa.
Every year in August Techirghiol Town hall organizes an event called
"Techirghiol's Days", celebrating the treasure.
- Plain lakes – here we can name the famous lakes of Amara, Slobozia,Strachina,
Jirlau, Balta Amara, Campeni, Movila Miresii, Ianca, Sarat-Braila. Hypertonic
chloro-sodic mineral water lakes have high concentration in salts: sodium
chloride, magnesium, salts, calcium, potassium, bromine, iodine, etc. They all
come in small amount, but all together have an important therapeutic role.
The helioterm character is determined by the stratification of the lake water by
increasing its salinity from the surface to the bottom until saturation.
Thus, circulatoryvenous disorders of the lower limbs, chronic or gynecological
are positively influenced.
- Lakes that come from salt massifs such as Sovata, Tg. Ocna, Slanic, Ocnele Mari, Cojocna, Ocna Mures. Heterogeneous mineralizing of salt lakes and the water temperature degree explains the heliothermic phenomenon that has therapeutic effect. All these lakes have deposits of mud in the bottom, which enhances the quality of the therapeutic effect as well as the range of spa treatments that can be applied (mud baths, mud wraps and massages). Lakes that come from the salt massifs are used in external treatments for cold baths during summer, with therapeutic effects due to high salinity and helioterm character.
Romania offers a lot of SPA /HEALTH destinations, all around the country.
The SPA Resorts offer their guests a variety of medical spa procedures, wellness treatments and why not, seeing the great tourist attractions in the area.
You can enjoy the beautiful surroundings and the strongly ionized air, which is a blessing for health.
Enjoy nature and the countless natural sources of treatment!
