Thermal and Spa Hotels in Spain

The country registered a cooledwood of thousands of mineral and thermal sources. Many of them are located in the most popular spa regions of Spain in Russian tourists.

The country has the long tradition of balneo treatment. More than two thousand mineral and thermal sources are registered here, many of them are located in popular resorts. More than a hundred years in the country there is a National Association of Thermal Resorts (Asociacion Nacional De Estaciones Termales / Anet).

Its functions include the determination of the resort status: spa, thalasso, wellness or thermal. Wellness centers and hotels offer specialized treatment and treatment by sea at all resort coasts of Spain. There is also such a direction as climatotherapy, that is, the use of the therapeutic properties of the climate of this resort.

What is Balneario? In the understanding of the Spaniards "Balneario" is a wellness center with the possibility of accommodation. In our opinion, it will be a sanatorium. In addition to sanatoriums, there are wellness centers that do not have a hotel base. But, as a rule, there are hotels near them. Often balneo centers having hotels indicate in their name level of star. For example, Cestona 3 * (Basque Country) means that the center has a three-star hotel.

The same wellness center can have several hotels in different categories.

For example, in the title Archena 4/3 / 2 * (Murcia) "Forencrypted "that at the same time there are three hotel levels 4, 3 and 2 stars, respectively. At the same time, if the star is not attached to the name of the center, it is not at all that it does not have a hotel base.

Catalonia

Russian tourists are the most visited tourist region visited in Spain. About 50 mineral springs are used, about 20 balneological resorts are built on them.

Slightly less than half of them are on the coasts of Costa Brava, Costa Dorada and Costa del Maresme, the rest - in the vicinity of Barcelona, \u200b\u200bCentral Catalonia and Pyrenees. In general, the Catalan Balneo Resorts can simultaneously take up to two thousand guests. The resorts are referred to as the locality name. Barcelona and its surroundings are about 20 balneo centers, spa and thalasso hotels. The Barcelona itself is three spa.

The first historical thermal center of Catalonia is located near Barcelona at the Broquetas resort in Caldes de Montbui. This is a kind of museum. On its territory to this day, Roman baths have been preserved. Almost all Balneo Catalonia are open all year round.

Among them, Vila de Caldes, Termas Forns, Broquetas and Blancafort in the vicinity of Barcelona, \u200b\u200bVichi Catalan and Termas Orion near Zherona. Everyone has hotel databases. All Spanish cities based in that era in the zones of thermal waters are called Caldes, this word comes from the Roman name Aquae Calidae, which means "hot water".

RATA-NEWS Correspondent at the invitation of the Tourism Council Catalonia visited three thermal resorts:

• Caldes de Montbui,
• La Garriga.
  
• Montbrio del Camp..

Terms of Montbui

Caldes de Montbui, located in the vicinity of Barcelona - the oldest city resort Catalonia. He is, naturally, the Romans, although the Iberian tribes used the local water long before the arrival of the conquerors. In the city museum of thermal waters, thermalia told us that in those years there was not even as such as such a Roman settlement, but the commander and centurions came here from Barcelona for recreation. They relax and treated in terms, along the way, discussing political and commercial issues with comrades, were engaged in sports, lunch and visited the library.

The ancient Roman terms, to this day, dominant in the architectural appearance of the town - one of the few in Europe, which have come down to the present day.

Montbui's terms are the best preserved construction of this kind on the entire Pyrenean Peninsula. Caldary (hot water pool) dates from the first century to our era. Another Roman sauna and baths are preserved in the town, but they are hidden on the territory of hotels. In the "golden age" of hydrothery, from the second half of the XIX century to the middle of the 20th century, Caldes de Montbui was one of the most famous resorts in Europe, with nine elegant hotels equipped with the latest balneotherapy. Now there are 4 hotels here.

The source of the hypertermal chloride-sodium and fluoride water in Caldes de Montboui is known not only for its healing properties: Respiratory and rheumatic diseases, respiratory and rheumatic diseases, heals the respiratory and rheumatic diseases. The source is famous for very high temperatures, which ranges from 73 to 78 degrees Celsius, but most often delayed on 74 degrees.

"This is the hottest source in Spain and the second temperature in Europe" - They say in the museum. "This source still remains the hottest self-looping source, more hot water was opened when drilling for 2,000 years later," Catalonia is added to the tourism office.

And he is poured from the stone mouth of the lion in the picturesque fountain of Leo - Font De Lleo, built in 1581 and partly retaining his primary appearance. The area between the fountain and the Roman Caldarium is very popular with the locals in winter, and not only because of the bars located around it. After all, it is always warm because of the hot water, which is going and slowly seeps against the splinter at a depth of stone bridge. After the rain, the square completely dries over three minutes. In the town there is no common, pool with thermal water, private pools are in hotels.

From Monday to Friday, pensioners from Barcelona and other cities of Catalonia are usually located, arriving here to be treated on social programs. Another cultural and historical attraction of the city is dated to the end of the XIX century. In those years, public laundry has been built throughout Spain. In the century of washing machines, Launda Caldes de Montboui is not only perfectly preserved, but also continues to function.

After a century, the tradition has been preserved thanks to the residents of the town: several older women every week's day come here to wash. Water in a special pool for washing, of course, thermal. Because of the source to the laundry, it is cooled. The ladies omit underwear into the water with a temperature of 62 and 50 degrees. Schoolchildren from large cities come here on excursions to learn to wash. Here they meet the things that the modern young generation seem strange: large pieces of natural olive soap, brushes for stuffing spots, graters for coarse cavatons, tongs for linen and wicker baskets for carrying it.

By the way, earlier such baskets were made right here, in Caldes de Montbui: the vine was swollen in line with a hot stream, and then spilled her sitting on warm stones of the main square. Here even produced huge baskets specifically for sale in the port of Barcelona, \u200b\u200blocated 35 km from here. Fully preserved old laundry - a unique case in Catalonia. Residents of the town partly saved and the past. The historical appearance of the town was installed in many other buildings: residential buildings, hotels, medieval urban wall and St. Mary's Church.
Now Caldes de Montbui has 17 thousand inhabitants and annually, on the statistics of the museum, more than 28 thousand tourists are served. People attending the waterproofs are even more.

However, the local hot water is enough not only for therapeutic and cultural purposes. Water is assembled in special tanks and is used for watering gardens - on the healing minerals of the plant grow better. Particularly famous local white beans.

La Harriga

Next point of our trip The resort of La Harriga is 25 km from Barcelona. He, like most of the thermal zones of Catalonia, is located along a straight line, which can be burned on the map from Tarragona to Girona. This is a line of deep tectonic fracture in the earth's crust, along which water is heated in depths, under pressure rises to the surface, on the way, saturating minerals of rocks.

Healing B.oDD Harriga - thermal (56 ° C) chloride sodium, containing silicon, fluorine and lithium. According to gerontologists, silicon is a powerful herooprotector, and its beneficial effect on the skin has long been used in the cosmetic industry. In the hotels of a small resort town a lot of beauty programs and antistress. Water is effective in articular pains, which is likely to explain their fame since the Roman Empire.

The resort's revival began in the middle of the XV, when the hospital on hot waters was built. Now it loves to rest the king of Spain. Our group stopped at the thermal center of the cozy Hotel Termes De La Garriga, built in 1874 in elegant eclectic style and completely reconstructed in 2004.

A small hotel has its own thermal source. It is hidden from prying eyes in the courtyard among flowers and green grass. Here you can sunbathe on a lounge chair at the thermal pool, lie on warm stone topchains heated by hot water, walk along the stones in the cold font and drink herbal infusion in a cafe on the terrace.

Everything here stores the spirit of the fashion resort of the XIX century, but in terms of the comfort and equipment of the medical center correspond to modern Spa hotels. After visiting the indoor thermal pool and saunas, you can go to the procedural offices. In addition to the usual procedures: Stounterapia, Aromatic and Vacuum massage, Vichy and Charcot shower, a variety of baths, etc., the latest methods of cosmetic and aesthetic medicine are used here. For example, a rejuvenating gold mask for a face. The cost of this procedure is 139 euros.

Montbrio del Camp

The third resort of our trip - Montbrio del Camp is located in the Costa Dorada region. Stylized under modern Hotel Termes Montbrio Spa, RESSORT & PARK with a luxurious tropical plant park is connected by indoor transition with the thermal center Aquatoni.

Here you can not only relax in the sodium-sodium chloride pool, rich in bicarbonate and sulphate ions, calcium, magnesium, lithium and potassium water, but to pass all the "circles" Wellness: from Roman pair and sauna to jacuzzi, hydromassage cascades and jets, and In fabulous interiors.

Small pools in which hot water comes directly from the source, hide in the man-made cave maze. Protectly warm up, on the mounted bridge you can go to the cold font, so that there are on the stone pebbles there and stand under the ice flow of the underground waterfall.
The hotel's extensive park is also full of fabulous landscapes: streams, fountains, waterfalls stylized under the ancient buildings and paths laid out by mosaic from sea stones.
Sightstitality of the park is a monument to the losage, which is found underground source. The park also has a beach, although it is located 6 km from the sea.

Costa Brava and Costa del Maresme

On the coast Costa del Maresm Balneological Centers are mainly at some distance from the sea. Many of them are located in the vicinity of Girona. For example, the small city of Caldes de Malavelli (5.6 thousand inhabitants), built from the sources of healing hot water, is approximately in the middle between the Gerona and the coast.

Here, the Roman terms are perfectly preserved, which are declared a historical monument of national importance. The city has several resort hotels and three bottling factories (Sant Narcis, Vichy Catalan and Aigua de Malavella). Local thermal water (an average of 60 ° C) drink in rheumatism, metabolic disorders, dental diseases, they fill pools.

Vichy Catalan Balnology Center 3*, located on the coast of Costa Brava, 20 km from Zherona, built in the style of "Arabesque", in the wall painting, the images of fantastic plants and animals are bizarrectically combined.

In the northeast of Catalonia, at the foot of the fogs of the Pyrenees Mountains near Figueres there is a small resort village Perada (Peralada).It positions itself as an exclusive resort, attracting the attention of VIP clients, which offers a chic sanatorium. Hotel Golf & Wine Spa Peralada, Several prestigious restaurants, Peralada Golf Club and Casino in Penlada Castle.

Perada- One of the numerous centers of Catalonia winemaking. Hotel Golf & Wine Spa Peralada is famous for Wine Spa Winotherapy Center. Here are offered procedures based on grapes and wine: peeling grape bones, wraps, wine baths, hydromassage with wine, massage with grapes. Grape cosmetics are produced.

Here you can go through the "Health Route" , The prescribed Roman patricians of the famous doctor Asclepius, who said that it is impossible to treat patients "painlessly, soon and pleasant." In the Roman terms "Route" began with Palaestras - athletic classes.

Caldes de Estrac (Caldes d'Estrac) - The picturesque coastal village of 39 km from Barcelona on the coast of Costa del Maresme. The resort has gained popularity due to a thermal water source driving from the rock. In local Thermal hotels Balneari Titus, Banos Termales de Caldes d'Estrac and Hotel Colon andthe thermal waters of 39 ° C are used.

Hotel Colon. - The only hotel on the coast of Catalonia, where healing is used as water thermal sources and sea water (thalassotherapy). In five to six kilometers to the north along the coast, another thermal resort is located - Arenys de Mar. This port city is most significant in the Maresme region. Here is popular toburgroned Balneological Center Titus 3 *, designed for 60 guests.

Costa Dorada

In the province of Tarragona created the Association of Six Spa Hotel Province.

It includes:

• Hotel Spa Mas Passamaner,
• estiilla Engracia complex,
• Hotel Ra Beach Thalasso Spa,
• Hotel Termes Montbrio Spa Resort,
• Golf Hotel La Figuerola,
• Hotel VallFogona de Riucorb

The latter is notable located on its territory with a unique water park of L'Aquatic (more than 1000 sq. M. M of the water surface), owner of one of the most prestigious premiums in the field of cosmetology of Professional SPA magazine in the Nomination The Best European Spa & Resort Hotel .

Notes hotel Complex Estival Park in La Pineda Consulting from the hotel, apartments for family holidays, a club for exclusive clients and the Medical and Health Center SPA Estival, where, among other things, fashionable WineSPA procedures are also offered.

Stand out Hotel Ra Beach Thalasso Spa in Vendrel (El Vendrell) . A historic building built in Moorish-style 300 m long is perfectly inscribed in the surrounding landscape of the fishing settlement Salvador, which in essence has already become part of the resort.

In the water, which is used in this hotel, the concentration of iodine is ten times higher than the average iodine concentration in sea water. 6 km from the coast of Costa Dorada a small settlement of Montbrio del Camp, since a long time known for its healing terms.

Canary Islands

Canara- One of the oldest directions in the field of recreational tourism.

As noted in historical documents (in particular, British), in recent decades of the XIX century. A huge number of foreigners arrived at the island, which was attracted besides a fellow climate, the sea and the sun, the opportunity to strengthen health.

On the Canaries more than fifty hotels and apartments offering wellness treatments, and this is over 10 thousand places for accommodation. From the seven islands of the Canary Archipelago of Russian tourists, Tenerife and Grand Canaria are most popular.

Tenerife

On the island of about ten hotels where spa services and thalassotherapy are offered.

Sea treatment will be offered centers:

• Talasoterapia Canarias.
• H10 Conquistador,
  
• Club Spa La Quinta Park,
• Gran Melia Bahia Del Duque
• Hotel DreamPlace Gran Tacande,
• Hotel Jardines de Nivaria and others.

Russian tourists are very popular Botanico Spa Hotel in Puerto de la Cruz. It is unusually luxurious Oriental Spa Garden. More than 3 thousand square meters. m.

Grand Canaria. The local nature amazes contrasts: volcanic profiles and green slopes, deserts and green lawns, pine forests and palm groves ... and, of course, multi-kilometer beaches.

On Grand Canaria around 15 beauty and health centersmainly in hotels.

• Hotel Club De Mar,
• Hotel Dunas La Canaria,
• Gran Hotel Costa Meloneras,
  
• Grand Hotel Residencia,
• Hotel Riu Palace Maspalomas,
• Hotel Santa Catalina Spa Center,
• H. Riu Palace Meloneras Resort,
• H10 Playa Meloneras Palace,
• H. Grand Palace Maspalomas Oasis,
  
• with thalassotherapy centers ,hotel Gloria Palace San Agustin and Hotel Dunas Vital Suites ...

Most hotels are located in Maspalomas Beach (Maspalomas), one of the most significant tourist centers in Spain.

Andalusia

Most thermal centers of the region are located in Granada (about 10), in particular in the municipalities of Alhambra and Guadix, and its surroundings.

We can say that local balneology began to develop from here. Thalassotherapeutic centers for hotels are mainly located in Malaga.

Balneological centers of the region are located in Granada, Malaga, Hyenne, Almeria, Cadiz. Not all centers are open all year round.

Costa del Sol

In recent years, more than 20 hotels having spa and wellness centers have appeared on Costa del Sol. For example, five kilometers from Marbella is located Beach Hotel Agh Estepona .

Here are six pools (including an artificial wave pool), a jacuzzi with artificially salted water, Turkish baths, sauna, procedural beauty offices, Vichy shower, various types of massage. Very wide range of services at the hotel "Incosol Hotel Medical Spa" . Here are 20 massage rooms (10 of them - for underwater massage).

Hotel specialists offer 12 types of massage, 15 types of body treatments, 34 types of cosmetology programs (anti-aging, vitamin, for sensitive skin, moisturizing, local procedures for neck, area around the eyes, eyebrows tattoo and much more).

Between Marbelle and Estepona is located Hotel "Hotel Selenza Thalasso-Wellness. It features thalassotherapy, osteopathy treatment sessions, shower-peeling, baths for Kneippu, massages (including the newest system for underwater massage "Bath Niagara"), pressotherapy, mud ...

Here, in the province of Malaga, there are such spas and Thalasso hotels:

• Gran Hotel Benahavis,
  
• Gran Hotel Playabella,
  
• KEMPINSKI RESORT HOTEL,
  
• G. H. ELBA ESTEPONA & SPA,
  
• H. EL Paraiso Costa Del Sol,
• Hotel Beatriz & Spa Palace and others.

Valencian community

About 120 mineral sources. In Valencia, thermal stations built in the XIX century. (eg, MonLleo en Villavieja. in Castelone or Center Fuentecaliente en Chulil.lA In Valencia), coexist with modern thalassotherapy centers and exquisite spa salons.

In the Valencian community there are about 30 centers covering the sector of health tourism: in Alicante, Castellone and Valencia province.

The most famous Wellness hotels and centers of the Valencia Community:

• Hotel El Palasiet,
• MELIA ALTEA HILLS RESORTS,
• Hotel Princesa,
  
• Hotel Spa Porta Maris,
• Hotel Sidi San Juan,
  
• Hotel Daniya Spa & Business and others.

Spa on fresh water. In addition to the thermal centers and centers of thalassotherapy, guests of the Valencian community can visit the resorts where beauty and health procedures are also offered using non-sea, and fresh water. These centers are focused on cosmetology and relaxation.

Thermal balneological centers.

These are mainly reconstructed and updated ancient facilities, which use healing mineral waters from local sources to prevent and treat a number of diseases of the musculoskeletal system, respiratory tract, digestive organs. Aesthetic cosmetology also uses high demand.

The peculiarity of Valencian thermal centers is that in addition to general procedures, many of them offer any exclusive therapeutic program depending on the composition of water.

For example, the water of the thermal station Verche in the town of Calue (Valencia) is particularly effective for skin care and its treatment. The water of the center of Montanekhos hydrotherapy (Castellón) is used for the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases.

The best hotels on the thermal and spa resorts of Spain:

This ballnery, fully found, is surrounded by gardens and parks with a total area of \u200b\u200b68.000m2, where one of the most beautiful lakes of the whole of Europe is also located, known for its thermal waters of more than 2,000 years, where it is pleasant to swim at any time of the year. Balneuria was awarded a prestigious quality mark "Q" - the highest award in resort and health tourism. In March 2007, there was a new hotel 5 *****
Incosol Hotel - Medical Spa & Resort Located just a 5-minute walk from the center of Marbella (Costa del Sol), 800 meters from the beach, a 5-minute walk from Rio Real Golf Course and 30 minutes' drive from the airport Malaga. TO incosol OMPLEX combines a medical center with excellent technical equipment, a therapeutic spa center and a five-star hotel, offering its guests a whole range of the most modern procedures to maintain beauty and care for health and general condition.
The Peralada Hotel, built at the end of 2001, is located in the northern part of the Costa Brava coast, proudly towering in the very center of the golf course on 18 holes. The hotel offers its guests a present Spanish miracle in the world of beauty and health - "Wine" spa. The art of winemaking was based on the creation of this original center, which uses products made from grape vines in the proposed services. Wine spa is part of the hotel complex of the first category.
Hotel "Sallés Hotel & Spa Cala del Pi" is a five-star luxury hotel located in Platja D "ARO, (Girona Province), in the first line from the sea, a few steps from the picturesque Cala del Pi beach, in the heart of Costa Brava. And besides this, right from the hotel you fall on the Magic Cala del Pi Beach, where the aroma of the sea and the picturesque views of the Mediterranean will take you true aesthetic pleasure.
Catalan resort of Tarragona, located 40 kilometers from Barcelona, \u200b\u200benjoys many more popular among English and German bourgeois. It is in this paradise that is one of the most luxurious hotels - five-star Le Meridien Ra Beach Hotel & Spa. Extensive parking area, luxuriously furnished rooms and suites, a magnificent thalassotherapy center called Ra Wellness, which is not different as the "kingdom of beauty and harmony".
Hotel "Gran Hotel Elba Estepona & Thalasso Spa 5 * GL", made in the traditional Spanish style, is located on the first line from the sea, 3 kilometers from the city of Estepona, and the atmosphere of idyllic calm, promoting complete relaxation. Its center Talasso SPA, a total area of \u200b\u200bmore than 1,400 m2, is equipped with high-quality equipment, taking into account the latest technical developments and is intended for aesthetic procedures, relaxation procedures, as well as procedures aimed at improving health.
Located in one of the most picturesque places of the coast of Costa Brava, surrounded by a spacious park, not far from the magnificent beaches of Mediterranean, this hotel attracts the attention of tourists of all ages and categories that prefer a comfortable and diverse vacation. The hotel has a modern spa, beautiful territory. For the hotel's customers, a free shuttle service is available from the hotel to Fanyaba Beach.
In 2003, the La Calderona Spa Sport Club opened its doors to visitors. Undoubtedly, this is a special place, the largest health center, where everyone can restore lost forces by doing sports or just enjoying life. The hotel is part of the Resort La Calderona spa complex, with a total area of \u200b\u200b30000 m2. Located 14 kilometers from Valencia
Mas Passamaner Hotel, built in 1922 by the prestigious architect-modernist domain and Muntanner, turned into a fashionable hotel complex after the reforms of recent years. Nearby are wine plantations, beaches, city Reus (9 km), Tarragona (15 km) and Barcelona (95km).
The Hotel Complex "Villaitana Resort" resembles a Mediterranean town, located surrounded by 2 golf courses on 18 holes, on a hill with a magnificent view of La Marina Baixa bay, where you can plunge into the world of full relaxation and unique luxury, presented Charm the coast of Costa Blanca. The hotel complex presents one of the most beautiful sights of Maina Alta Komarf. Villaitana Resort is located on the coast of Costa Blanca, 5 kilometers from one of 3 famous beaches of Benidorm - Playa Levante, and in the immediate vicinity of the Amusement Park Terra Mítica
The hotel "Elba Costa Ballena Beach Golf & Thalasso Hotel", built in a scenic and privileged place on the first line from the sea and borders with a wonderful golf course on 27 holes. The hotel offers a wonderful view of the surroundings. The hotel complex has excellent opportunities for those who take care of their health.
Built in 2005, the hotel, located in a strategic place, not far from Molina and Masella ski stations, at an altitude of 1800 meters above sea level on the top of the COLLADA DE TOSSES Mountain, offering unique panoramic views of two valleys. 2500 m2 of the hotel offer modern natural wellness, aesthetic and generalifying procedures, based on the purest melt water from snow, high mountain nature and thalassotherapy products.
Modern building, fully reformed in 1992, is located in the historical center of the municipality at the place of the old innovative yard "Hostal Del Angel", entering the defensive wall of the Caldes settlement, located 28 kilometers from Barcelona.
SELENZA ESTEPONA SPA and Thalasso Hotel is located on the "Golden Mile" of the Costa del Sol coast, between the cities of Marbella and Estepona. It offers guests an outdoor pool and the largest at Andalusia spa with sea water with an area of \u200b\u200b2000 square meters.
The charming hotel located near the Gredos Park has free Wi-Fi throughout the hotel, DVD and TV large format. There is a magnificent restaurant and Bodega, a cafeteria with a fireplace, a library, a garden of 1000 m2. Various events are offered (horseback riding, mountain biking, etc.). This is one of the few hotels with an astronomical observatory, offering organizedly watch the stars. Opposite the hotel is a spa using local waters Grados, a hydrothermal center, an acclimatized pool, are offered more than 40 different procedures and massages. The hotel is 50 km away. From Avila and less than 2 hours drive from Madrid.