SPA & WELLNESS

Bulgaria is an extremely attractive international center for treatment, recreation and tourism with its numerous resorts, favorable climate, over 800 hydro mineral springs…. In the uniqueness, variety and abundance of hydrothermal, bioclimatic, mud treatment, sea cure, and other health resources, Bulgaria ranks as second best in the world after Iceland. Bulgarian traditions in climato-balneological treatment date back to old times.

The Bulgarian mineral waters are known for their greatly varied chemical composition and, respectively, their mineralization and type of dissolved mineral salts, curative gases and biologically active micro components. Scientists agree that all kinds of known mineral waters around the world find their counterpart in Bulgaria. The Firth Mud Sources, along the Black Sea coast, the Curative Peat, Spring Curative Mud and Bentonite Clays possess a particularly great potential in the treatment of many different diseases. Bulgaria occupies one of the first places in the world with the exceptional diversity of Medicinal Herbs and the excellent curative properties of its Apian Products.

This enormous wealth of natural factors, combined with country's modern hotels and spa facilities, provide excellent possibilities for the year-round effective treatment of the most widespread diseases of our times and truly make Bulgaria a Country of Health.

The numerous mineral springs /over 800/ are located in three main regions – South Bulgaria, including Rila, Rhodopes and Pirin mountains, Sredna Gora and the Balkan Mountain Range; North Bulgaria – the surroundings of Montana, Vidin and Pleven; the northern part of the Black Sea Coast. We should also mention the surroundings of Sofia which are a rich area numbering more than forty hydrothermal springs.

The Bulgarian spa resorts have the advantage of being located in vary favourable climatic regions, affording the exceptional possibility of combining balneotherapy with climatic treatment.

The Black Sea coast is a sub region of the continental Mediterranean climatic region. Neither the harsh climatic conditions of the northern European coasts, nor the scorching heat of the Mediterranean are characteristic of it.

The Bulgarian climatic mountain resorts also offer varied prophylactic and therapeutic possibilities. The lovely scenery, clean air, short-wave ultraviolet radiation, negative air ionization, particularly close to mountain waterfalls, as well as the many mineral springs, different in temperature and composition, are their major assets.