Hungary and the Thermal Patrimony

Hungary dedicates 370 million euros to recover its Thermal Patrimony.

Include in the development project named after the hungarian aristocrat of the XIX century, Széchenyi, with the Hungarian government's financial help, in the period of 2002 and 2004, will be carried out 67 projects with a value of 370 million Eurus, to recover and to rehabilitate the thermal patrimony. With the inauguration of an SPA in the city of Sárvár and the Conference of Tourism that will take place from 29 of November to 01 December in Budapest, Hungary declares the 2003, Year of the Health.

The next 29 November, in Budapest it will take place the ceremony of the official opening of the Conference of Tourism, by doctor Gábor Galla, of the National Office of Tourism of Hungary.

This first day will deal with, among other topics, the importance of the Tourism of Health in the Hungarian tourism, financing of the tourism of health and treatment of rheumatic illnesses and integration opportunities between the Spas of Health and the Places of Health of the OTP of the National Bank of Health.

Besides topics related with the therapy holistic anti-aging and maintenance of health and continuous prevention of illnesses. Concluding with a report on proposal for the development of the services of tourism of health and thermal marketing.

The Conference of Tourism is supplemented with numerosas activities related with the recovery of spas of patrimonial interest. On account of which, on 30 of November will take place the official inauguration of a new Spa en the city of Sárvar.

The thermal richness of Hungary is a patrimony of incalculable value since a good part of the Hungarian territory, and especially, its capital Budapest, has in the underground an authentic reservation of thermal waters.

According to data facilitated by the Office of Tourism of Hungary in Spain, the country has a total of 1.289 sources, some 39 towns with official certificate of being towns of medicinal thermal spa interest; 5 medicinal caves; 13 places of medicinal therapy; 48 sources of mineral water with official certificate; 136 sources of medicinal mineral water with official certificate; 4 places of mud / medicinal mires and a town with "mofette" (source of natural carbodioxido for the medicinal use)

The first thermal sources were known 6000 years ago. Some establishments from the homo erectus have been discovered near of these sources, for what their beneficial effects were already known by the prehistoric men.

The medieval chronicles speak that Santa Isabel treated the lepers in the spas that the Knights of San Juan founded at the foot of the hill of Gellért, in Buda.

However were the Turks, very fond of the bath, those that transformed the visit to the thermal centers into an authentic social rite and those that began the massive construction in the whole Hungary.

Inside this program of quadrennial development, for the recovery and rehabilitation of their thermal patrimony, different activities have been oranized, related to the thermalism and the projection of the spas as new tourist product of health and well-being.

TERMAS WORLD AGENCY