HUNGARY PRESENTS IN FITUR 2004 THE ROUTE THROUGH THE WESTERN TRANS-DANUBE

The Healthy Route that begins in Budapest, city of Royal Spas, concluding in Héviz with the biggest lake of thermal water in Europe.

Under the motto "A Healthy Tourism", Hungary presented at the International Fair of Tourism (FITUR) that took place from 28th of January until 1st of February in Madrid, one of the most important tourist circuits in thermal patrimony and emblemátic SPA cities such as Bük, Sárvár and Héviz, located in the greennest region in the magiar country, the Western Trans-Danube.

This part of Hungary has border with four countries: Slovakia, Austria, Slovenia and Croacia, extended from the Lake Fertó which is part of the National Park Fertó?Hansag, to the Lake Balatón, considered the "Sea of Hungary" and the biggest one in Central and Western Europe.

The Healthy Route through the Western Trans-Danube is an exceptional experience for the specialists in the new thermalism tendencies. Gyór, one of the three biggest cities of Hungary and winner of the Europe Award due to its protection to the monuments, having a thermal and entertainment park at the heart of its Baroque city.

Bükfürdó, one of the most important spas in Hungary, located in the northwestern part of the county of Vas, in the union of the Small Plain and the lower part of the Alps. The city is visited by 840.000 people a year. The therapeutic water of Bük sproud from a depth of 1282 meters, with 55şC temperature and its thermal water has a high content of calcium, magnesium and fluorine, besides of carbon dioxide.

This thermal complex extretched for a territory of 13 hectares and there are 19 pools, a Phisiotherapéutic Institute where all the rehabilitation therapies are applied, the comfort of a recreation park, a modern camping site and a Conventions Centre.

The emblematic city of Sárvár is today the centre of the thermalism after the remodeling of its spa becoming an immense thermal complex that offers modern services of traditional and natural medicine. The therapeutic water with hidrocarbonates of alkaline elements and sodium chloride, is suitable for bony degenerative illnesses, dermatitis, and gynecological illnesses. As an speciality, the application of the salts of Sárvár in bathtub.

HÉVIZ, THE CITY OF THE WATER

The of biggest lake of thermal water in Europe and the only one in the world that possesses healing powers either in the water as in the therapeutic mud that forms a layer of several meters in the bottom. Due to its high concentration of sulphur and radio, it facilitates the treatment of numerous illnesses.

The components of the thermal waters are exceptional in the treatment of the rheumatic illnesses and osteoporosis problems. It has also been achieved successes in the column treatments.

According to the director of the National Office of Tourism of Hungary in Spain József Németh, The thermal spring of Héviz is a gift of the nature from which benefits for the whole country are derived. Another valuable attraction is the picturesque landscape of Pannoia together with the vapours from the lake that cloud the small city, offering health and satisfaction for its visitors.

The "miraculous cure effects" of the Héviz Lake were discovered by the Romans. In spite of this historical fact, the true birth of this thermal lake was in the year 1795, when the Count George Festetics became the proprietor of this area.

The Route through the Western Trans-Danube, together with the Thermal Route through Budapest and its Royal Spas, is part of the series Healthy Routes, interactive edtion, designed and published by the GRUPO TERMAS and BuscaSalud.com. The Healthy Routes as innovative tourist product, it is being applied by countries like Argentina having a great richness of mineral-medicinal waters and an emergent tourist potential in the whole thermal corridor of the Uruguay.

TERMAS WORLD AGENCY