| Description: |
Tusnad Spa
A little bit of history
About mineral waters in Tusnad area there are written evidences dating from the second half of the 18th century, mentioning the existence of springs with curative effects used by local people for maintaining health. Surnamed “Transylvania’s Pearl”, Tusnad is one of the most beautiful spas in Romania, with balneal activity since mid 19th century
Position and climate
Tusnad spa is situated in the southern part of Ciuc Basin, 650 m high, between Harghita and Bodoc Mountains, in a splendid gorge of Olt River. This location gives Tusnad a beautiful natural position, strongly ozonified air, rich in aerosols and negative ions, that fulfill a tonic mountainous bioclimate, favorable to psychical reconfortation. The average temperature is around 8 deg. C (17,5 in July and -7 in January), with cold winters and capricious summers.
Therapeutic mineral waters
These waters comefrom natural sources and they meet particular criteria regarding physical and chemical characteristics, they have pharmacodynamic effect on the human organism and they are used for therapeutic purposes. The categories of mineral waters in Baile Tusnad are: carbonated, salty-contaiming sodium chloride, containing calcium, containing magnesium, ferrous-chalybeate, containingsodium bicarbonate, hypotonic with an overall mineralization of 0.68 - 17.86 g / liter.
Natural therapeutic gases - Moffeta (carbon dioxide)
Moffettas represent natural carbon dioxide gas emanations dispersed in air. They result from the volcanism of the Eastern Carpathiens mountainous area and they are turned togood account in the balneary cure. Using natural gas emanations for therapeutic purposes in Romania is a unique fenomenon in the world. |
| Category: |
Spa/health resort |
| Services: |
in-patient health cure, out-patient health cure, medical prevention in spa resort, medical wellness, in-patient rehabilitation |
| Languages spoken: |
German, English, Hungarian, Romanian |
| Certificates: |
ISO 9001 ISO 9001:2000 |
| Natural curative resources: |
natural healing water, healing climate, natural healing gas, extra forms (Kneipp, Priessnitz, Schroth etc.) |
| Indication: |
Cardiovascular system, Metabolic system, Locomotive apparatus, Gastrointestinal system, Neurological, Rheumatological |
| Therapeutic procedures: |
electrotherapy, magnetotherapy, thermotherapy, hydrotherapy, massages, treatments based on natural local healing remedies |
| Within the facility: |
beauty salon, computer with internet connection, fitness centre, hairdresser (for women), hairdresser (men's), indoor swimming pool, sauna, shopping centre, table tennis |
| In the neighbourhood: |
billiards (0.2 km), catholic church (0.2 km), museum / gallery (30 km), outdoor swimming pool (0.1 km), recreation vehicles 4-wheel ATV rental shop (0.5 km), tennis courts (0.3 km) |
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