Thermal waters of Hungary

Hungary is extremely rich in thermal waters, its thermal water reserve is significant on a world scale and on European scale it is outstanding. Most of the mineral and medicinal waters contain dissolved minerals, providing medicinal and curative powers, and making them suitable for bathing and drinking cures.

Currently there are more than a thousand wells in Hungary that give + 30?C hot water most of which is medicinal water. Medicinal waters can be found in almost all regions of Hungary, and about three-quarters of the wells are located in the Great Hungarian Plain.

Among the 150 hot water spa baths of the country there are 36 special medicinal baths in which the water contains radioactivity, sulphurous acid, salt bromine carbonate or iodine. Europe's only cave-spa is in Northeast Hungary, in Tapolca, while Heviz Lake near Lake Balaton is the best-known hot water (33 ?C) medicinal-water lake in Europe. For decades, Budapest has been enjoying the name "the world's spa capital". Some of its baths had already been operating during the Turkish occupation (16th-17th centuries). There are some two dozen baths and 13 spas in the capital.

Hungary's mineral water production was 358 million litres in 2000.

Our well-known thermal baths:Zalakaros,Heviz,Harkany ,Bukk,Turkeve,Hajduszoboszlo etc