Balneological resorts - this is what? The best balneological resorts in the world

What are balneological resorts? These are places for rest, where you can improve your health with the help of mineral or thermal springs, healing baths and therapeutic mud. Staying on them has the most beneficial effect on the overall well-being of a person. Even if you are absolutely healthy, baths, baths and mud are able to lose ten years from a tired body (and incidentally, a couple of kilograms). In this article, we will examine the spa resorts in the world. Where to go - it's up to you. Especially since some resorts have a narrow specialization. For example, only the diseases of the musculoskeletal system or the stomach ulcer are treated. But there are options for the most "widespread use."

History of balneological resorts

Even the ancient Greeks appreciated the treatment on the waters. Then this practice was mastered by the Romans. The term "balneotherapy" belongs to them. In Latin, this means "treatment by bathing." The Romans are great lovers of the term, they knew a lot about sulfur and other sources, as well as in massages and rubbing. They also built the first-ever balneological resorts of Europe throughout the territory of their empire. In the Middle Ages, healing springs were fanned with a halo of holiness, and many monasteries made their fortunes. Since to go "to be treated for water" could afford only well-off patients, for such clients at bathing facilities the most comfortable conditions were created. To make the disease not boring, casinos, theaters, golf courses were opened. And the best chefs were invited to restaurants at the hydropathic institutions.

Something about balneological resorts

Now these places of recreation have specialization. In all, the newest methods of treatment and rehabilitation of the body after a previous illness have been used. Hydropathic balneological resorts are the use of fresh water for improving well-being. In general, thermal and mechanical influences of jets are used here. Baths, unlike showers, affect the patient by chemical action of water. The therapeutic effect of baths is the temperature effect. In addition to water in the balneological resorts mud is widely used - local or imported. In addition, essential oils and dry algae, various wraps, acupuncture, gymnastics, yoga, ayurveda and massage (reiki, Thai, Laotian, shiatsu) help to improve the well-being and enhance the healing effect.

Where to go on the water?

Before we start the comparative analysis of balneological resorts, we must say that regardless of their type they have a beneficial effect on overall health. You will not get any worse, as hydrotherapy is the safest and most universal therapy. You can go to the balneal resort with the whole family. The patient will be cured, and the rest of the household will be entertained, but at the same time they will remove toxins from the body, improve the skin condition, lose weight and rejuvenate. Mineral water as a hand relieves stress, chronic fatigue, normalizes blood pressure. In the world there are several tens of thousands of balneological resorts. In some of them prices are sky-high, and others - very even democratic. The difference is in the accompanying service. How to know, maybe this is also important. In order not to come home with "a man exhausted with Narzan", first study what the spa resort offers to holidaymakers.

Abano Terme

This place was popular during the Roman Empire. Here Petrarch, William Shakespeare, Byron, Mozart and Goethe were treated. Balneological resorts in Italy are very numerous, but Abano Terme, which is fifteen kilometers from Padua, is special. All diseases that can be overcome by thermal mineral water - from skin and respiratory to neuroses and diseases of the musculoskeletal system - are treated here. Widespread use of mud, the appliqué which, as they say, removes extra pounds from the hips and abdomen. Water in some sources reaches a temperature of 87 ⁰ Celsius. The course of treatment is two weeks. In the resort of Abano, you can find many sanatorium-hotels from three to five stars. "Chip" of the local treatment is that you need to turn on an empty stomach with mud, then get wet in a mineral bath, then go for a massage and then start breakfast.

Bad Ischl

Austrian balneological resorts are cute old villages in the Alps, charm of luxury with a touch of rural simple life. The region of Salzkammergut (in the translation "pantry salt") was famous for its mineral springs from ancient times. But when bathing in one of them, in Ishl, cured the infertility of the wife of Archduke Franz Karl Habsburg, this village was frequented by the whole Austrian aristocracy. There was built a summer villa of the emperor, and over the famous source were built Kaiser-Thermes. In addition to infertility, salt water treats a variety of diseases: skin, muscles and joints, bones, heart and blood vessels, respiratory tract, blood. Located Bad Ischl only fifty kilometers from Salzburg, so that the recovery can be combined with excursions. But even without this in the resort can not be bored. In winter, lifts work there and skiers and snowboarders skate. At the same time, pedestrian, bicycle and horse routes have been developed along beautiful trails running at a height of one thousand meters above sea level. And in August there is a festival of operetta, after all Lehar treated here wrote a dozen of his creations.

Bad Homburg

In Germany there are more than three hundred hydropathic institutions. And in general, if there is a prefix "bad" in the name of the town, be sure - there are healing keys. It can not be said that Homburg, which is located near Frankfurt am Main, is the best balneological resort in Germany, but the most famous one. In addition, he is narrow-profile. The staff of the luxurious baths Kaiser Wilhelm Bad does not promise to heal infertility, ailments of the gastrointestinal tract or respiratory tract, but guarantees: after the course of the baths, you will no longer suffer from diseases of the musculoskeletal system. The resort was opened by the ancient Romans, but the second life was given to him by William II. When in 1888 in Homburg the summer residence of the emperor was built, as if by a wave of a magic wand there appeared the first in continental Europe golf club and casino. At the table with a tape measure, by the way, the famous Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky was playing down.

Bath

Many balneological resorts of the world can boast of a history that goes back centuries. But Bat, a hundred kilometers from London among them, is probably the oldest. Archaeologists find evidence that people here took medicinal baths in the eighth century BC. And the first written mention of Bath serves him as the best recommendation: Bladud, the King of the Celts, was cured here of leprosy. Later, the water was appreciated by other monarchs and members of their families. On the Bath waters Henry VIII and Anna Boleyn were treated, and the wife of Jacob II after them was able to give Britain an heir. Shakespeare dedicated two wonderful sonnets to the baths, described by Jane Austen. In 2006 the resort was renewed. The wonderful center of Thermae Bath Spa treats diabetes, digestive diseases, joints and improper metabolism.

Druskininkai

The climate of Lithuania can not be called subtropical. But in Druskininkai, balneological resorts are a real opportunity to get a beautiful, even tan. Why? Yes, because the balnearies there are equipped with a beach with artificial ultraviolet lighting. And some of them also offer all the entertainment of this water park. The town in the south of Lithuania got its name from druska, which means "salt". On the banks of the river Neman treated Lithuanian princes and Polish king Stanislav. To help salutary saline waters are peat mud and amazing, piss-filled air Druskininkaya. Baths and wraps are recommended to be combined with long walks on specially designed terrenkuram. Dipping into local lakes promotes the treatment of gynecological diseases and the nervous system. Dirt from their bottom has the same effect on the joints as in the hospitals of Tunisia.

Marienbad (Marianske Lazne) and Karlovy Vary

Balneological resorts of the Czech Republic are more accessible for Russian tourists. There is a developed infrastructure and relatively democratic prices for recreation. The lion's share of our compatriots is visited by Karlovy Vary. In this small resort, 136 keys are beating. In boarding houses and sanatoriums are treated with showers and baths, irrigation, and also the intake of mineral water inside. After a three-week course, you can say goodbye or forget about skin diseases, diseases of the heart system and the motor apparatus for a long time. Endocrine problems are eliminated, and the reproductive health of women improves. There are 140 sources in Marienbad, each with its own unique composition. Peat mud is used for wrapping, water is not only drunk, but also inhaled on inhalations. Even local gas is used - they are given subcutaneous injections. At this resort, the health of Nicholas II was corrected, as were Gogol, Goethe and Wagner. Other places of balneological recreation in the Czech Republic - Teplice, Frantiskovy Lazne - are equally popular.

Resorts in Ukraine

Our south-western neighbor has many health resorts of different specialization. Healing mineral waters offer the sanatoriums of the White Church (not far from Kiev), Mirgorod (Poltava region), Khmilnik (Vinnytsia region). A lot of such resorts are concentrated in the west of the country. This Lviv (Morshin, Truskavets, Shkl) and Transcarpathian (Sinyak, Svalyava, Polyana, Kvasy, Shayan) area. In addition to water in Ukraine, medical mud is widely used. They are available in the Odessa region (Kuyalnik, Rassidyka, Sergeevka). All these health resorts have their own specialization, and you can always choose the right balneological resort for yourself. Carpathians, in addition to recovery, give the opportunity for ski holidays or green tourism. Gastrointestinal and kidney diseases are treated in Polyana and Shayan. In Kvass, radon baths are treated with problems of the musculoskeletal system and the peripheral nervous system.

Balneological resorts of Crimea

On the peninsula, the main health resort, where water and mud are treated, is the city of Saki. Not far from it is a number of salt lakes, in which there is a thick layer of mud mud. Several sources with mineral water are so famous that they are used for industrial bottling and are sold in pharmacies throughout the country. The effect of curative brine is enhanced by the unique climate of Sak. Local sanatoriums (Northern Lights, Blue Wave, Pirogov Military Clinic, Poltava, Yurmino and others) specialize in diseases of the musculoskeletal system, respiratory and digestive organs, cardiovascular system, gynecology, Urology, problems with infertility. SPA-procedures include baths, showers, underwater massages, inhalations, skeletal hoods. Use here and non-traditional methods of treatment (hippo and aromatherapy, acupuncture, ayurveda).

Balneological resort of Matsesta

Well, what about those Russians who do not have a passport for traveling abroad? Fortunately, our fatherland is also rich in balneological resorts. They dispersed throughout the territory of Russia, and therefore for mineral water and medicinal muds far to go it is not necessary. Suffice it to recall Karachi (Novosibirsk Region), Taluy (Magadan), Mountain Keys (Primorsky Territory), Sestroretsk Resort, Nalchik. Far beyond Russia is the hydrogen sulfide chloride-sodium water of Matsesta. This resort is located not far from Sochi. Baths from thermal sources Matsesta improve blood circulation and metabolism in the body, fight against hypertension, atherosclerosis. Inhalations and various irrigation allow you to get rid of periodontal disease, gingivitis, pharyngitis. Souls and chamber baths improve the condition of the joints, treat infertility. The effect is observed after two weeks of therapy.

Kislovodsk

No less than the balneological resort of Matsesta, the region of Mineral Waters is famous. 60 kilometers away from it is the city of Kislovodsk. Here rested Pushkin and Lermontov, Shalyapin and Tolstoy. Narzan was opened by the medical lab of Peter the Great. Emperor Alexander I granted the local mineral resorts the title of "a healing area of national importance". The water of Kislovodsk is drunk, it makes baths, souls out of it. Narzan successfully fights against diseases of the vascular, digestive and nervous systems, positively affects the joints and respiratory system.