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“Guide of local traditional festivals and events from Romania and the web site www.destinationromania.eu”,
proposed by the Representation Office of the National Union of the County Councils from Romania in Bruxelles
and with the support of the National Authority for Tourism.
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Constanta• Mamaia (3 km north of Constanta), the biggest resort in Romania (at an altitude of 6-8 m, also called
“the Black Sea’s Pearl”) stretches on a strip of land bathed by the sea waves in the east, and by the sweet waters of
the Siutghiol lake in the west. The first facility dates from 1906-1919, nowadays ranges among the most beautiful sea resorts in Europe.
Due to its excellent location, the resort receives permanently night and day breezes, blowing either from the sea or the lake.
In full season, the sun shines for 10-12 every day. The beach of the resort, which could compete with the famous beaches from
Cannes or Saint Tropez on the Cote d’Azur, has a very fine sand, on a length of 8 km and a width of 100-200 m. This outstanding
beach is scattered with elegant hotels, sport grounds, open air pools, discos, parks, summer theatre. One can practise water
sports or learn yachting or swimming, also the fishing is permitted on the Mamaia lake. Thousands of tourists from all over the
world come every summer to this beautiful resort, full of sun and gentle perfume of flowers, caressed by a charming atmosphere.
Access: by road E 60: Oradea-Constanta-Mamaia, E 87 Mangalia-Constan?a-Mamaia, by train Constanta railway station, than by
trolley sus or by tram up to, by air-international airport Mihail Kogalniceanu, then by coach;
• Eforie Nord is located about 14 km south of Constanta between the Black Sea and Techirghiol Lake. It is the second largest
resort on Romanian riviera (after Mamaia). Eforie benefits of a seacoast climate with hot summers (July average temperature above 22°c)
and mild winters with little snow (January average 0°C), low precipitation (about 400 mm annually) and low nebulosity in summertime
when the sun shines for 10-12 hours daily.
Eforie Nord is a traditional place for rest and treatment using natural cure factors. Natural cure factors are:
the water of the Black Sea which is chlorided, sulphated, sodic, magnesian, hypotonic (average mineralization 15.5g);
the salt water of Lake Techirghiol (average mineralization 70-80 g); the sapropelic mud from the bottom of the lake;
the solar radiation and the saline aerosols.
The fine-sand beaches are recognized for sunbathing and wave therapy; on the shore of Lake Techirghiol there are
two open-air treatment compounds, endowed with facilities for applications of cold mud from the lake and enclosures for bathing in the lake.
The spa started its activity in 1894, when the Bucharest Eforia of Civil Hospitals built here a sanatorium. The second spa
of the Romanian coast (in terms of size), Eforie Nord is famous in the entire Europe due to the treatments based on natural
factors existing here. The existing permanent treatment bases have numerous facilities for hot baths in tubs and pools (with
concentrated salt water from the Techirghiol lake or from the sea); devices for treatments with warm mud, devices for ginecological
treatment, rooms for Gerovital, Boicil si Pell-Amar treatments.
The resort are recommanded for both healthy holiday makers and ailing people who can take cures for degenerative (cervical,
dorsal and lumbar spondylosis), inflammatory (rheumatoid spondylitis and polyarthritis) and abarticular rheumatic diseases (tendonitis,
tendomyositis, scapulohumeral periarthritis), peripheral neurological disorders (post-traumatic paralysis and paresis of the limbs,
sequelae after poliomyelitis), dermatological, respiratory, gynecological disorders (ovarian insufficiency, chronic cervicitis,
secondary sterility, etc.), deficient growth of children, rachitis, decalcification, secondary anemia, etc. The resort has two
treatment compounds (one connected to the chain of hotels Meduza, Delfinul and Steaua de Mare, and another to the 120-bed Grand Clinic
of the Institute of Balneophysiotherapy and Medical Recovery - a study base for the specialized department of the Bucharest Institute
of Medicine of Pharmacy).
The charm of the great natural park inside where the spa is situated, the beautiful beach (3 km in length and reaching 100 m in width),
the sport arenas, the pools, the facilities for nautical activities, all give the spa an original atmosphere.
Access: by train-the Eforie Nord railway station, on the Bucharest-Constanta-Mangalia line, by road-DN 39-E 87 from Mangalia or Constanta-Vadu Oii, DN 3 from Calarasi, by plain-the international airport Mihail Kogalniceanu, by sea;
• Eforie Sud (18 km south of Constanta) is a spa with an wonderful seaside riviera descending in steps towards the beach, 2 km in length. Former Carmen Sylva spa, it once was the first watering and climatic place in Dobrudja (1892), and in 1930 it became the most important touristic resort of the Romanian shore. The annual average temperature is of 11,2 Celsius degrees, the average temperature in July is higher than 22 Celsius degreees. The gentle sea and land breezes are felt here. We also find here children sanatorium for rheumatology (permanent operation) and another one for debility and rickety (only during the summer). The sea wall (25-35 m in height offering a wonderful landscape), the discos, the theatre in open air are attractions of this spa and resort.
Access: by train-Eforie Sud railway station on the Bucharest-Constanta-Mangalia line;
• Techirghiol (18 km south of Constanta), permanent spa situated on the bank of the lake with the same name (at an altitude of 15-20 m), in a valley surrounded by small hills. Winters are mild and summers hot, dominant being the clear sky (sun shines for more than 2.400 hours every year).
The main natural therapeutic factors are the salt water and the sapropelic mud of the Techirghiol lake. Techirghiol – it is the richest lake with therapeutic mud in Romania (the mud is composed of organical elements mixed with mineral substances and represents the main element used in the treatment of various disease), making the spa a very demanded one. Techirghiol is also the greatest salt lake in our country (11,7 square km). This river-sea lake (once a sea-gulf) is nowadays a faunistic preserve (more than 124 species of birds live here, many of them rare ones). The lake is also a leisure centre, offering boats and motor boats;
The spa has five centres of treatment with many facilities (for warm baths in tubs or pools with concentrated salt water from the lake, for warm baths with mud and for hot mud treatments, for aerosols, for hydrotherapy.
Access: by train (Constanta and Eforie Nord railway stations, than by bus up to the spa, by road DN 39 from Constanta or Mangalia, with deviation in Eforie Nord).
• Neptun Olimp (6 km from Mangalia), resort situated at an altitude of 5-20 m on the sand strip between sea and the Comorova forest, a real oasis of quiteness and freshness, a garden of the Romanian shore. This modern touristic complex is defined by quality and elegance in what concerns the villas and hotels as well as its restaurants. Numerous sports can be practised here (horse riding, tennis, boat cruises). There also many cabarets and clubs, parks. Neptun has modern treatment facilities (electrotherapy, hydrotherapy, mud treatments, gyms, sauna, Gerovital and Aslavital treatments, famous Romanian therapeutic products preventing premature aging and regenerating the body);
• Venus (5 km from Mangalia), a summer resort situated on a cape formed by a descending slope in a beautiful amphitheatre. The resort, called after the goddess of beauty, has hotels with girl names, built in an original architectural style. As all the others resorts of the Romanian seaside, Venus enjoys the sea breeze, sunshine and fine sand being an attraction point for all the tourists;
• Saturn (42 km from Constanta and 1 km from Mangalia), summer resort (at an altitude of 3-10 m) offers 25 sunny days in a summer month. The sea water has, during the summer, an average temperature of 20 –25 Celsius degrees. The possibilities of accommodation, the restaurants, the bars, open air theatre, the sport grounds, the fishing and riding facilities assure very present holydays;
• Mangalia (44 km away from Constanta), permanent spa is situated at the same latitude with the Mediterranean resorts of Monaco, San Remo and Nice. It is as old as Tomis, the ancient colony was called Callatis (after the Calles river in Asia Menor), founded by the Greeks in the 6th century B.C., it developed in Roman times (2nd-4th centuries A.D.) and later revived by the Genoveses (13th-14th centuries) who called it Pangalia - "the most beautiful".
Mangalia has moderate maritime littoral climate, similar to the Mediterranean one (annual average temperature 11.2°C) with hot summers (July average over 22°C) and mild winters (January average 0.2°C), Mangalia being the country's second place, after Baile Herculane, with positive average temperatures in wintertime). Spring comes early but is cool and autumn is long and warm. In summertime, the nebulosity is reduced (about 25 sunny days in a month) and the duration of sunshine is of 10-12 hours a day. Low precipitation (about 400 mm annualy). The sea breeze is stronger in summer.
Mangalia is the unique sea spa with mineral springs (sulphurous, mezothermal and radioactive, used since Roman Antiquity). The natural cure factors are: the water of the Black Sea, which is chlorided, sulphated, sodic, magnesian, hypotonic (mineralization 15.5g); the sulphurous, chlorided, bicarbonated, sodic, calcic, mezothermal (21-28°C) mineral waters of the springs in the northern part of the town, in the area of the beach between Saturn and Venus; the sulphurous peat mud, rich in minerals, which is extracted from the peat bog north of the town (exploitation is estimated to last for 250 years) and the marine climate, rich in saline aerosols and solar radiation that have a bracing effect on the organism. The resort has a large, fine-sand beach developed for purposes of aeroheliotherapy and wave therapy, as well as high seawalls with a specific microclimate where one may benefit from inhalations of saline aerosols having therapeutic effects.
The resort is good both for healthy holidaymakers and for ailing people who can take cures for degenerative, inflammatory and abarticular rheumatic diseases (cervical, dorsal and lumbar spondylosis, arthrosis and polyarthrosis; pain in the joints after acute articular rheumatism or specific infections, ankylosing spondylosis, psoriatic arthropathy, biologically stabilized the umatoid polyarthritis; tendonits, tendomyositis, tendoperiostosis, scapulohumeral periarthritis), peripheral and central neurological disorders (post-traumatic paralyses or pareses of the limbs, polyneuropathies after the acute stage, sequels after poliomyelitis), gynecological disorders (ovarian insufficiency, chronic cervicitis, chronic metrosalpingitis), certain dermatological diseases (according to medical advice), respiratory (allergic asthma, tracheobronchitis, chronic bronchitis), cardiovascular (incipient varices, sequels after phlebitis, etc.), endocrinological (benign hypothyroidism, pubertal hypoovarianism, ovarian sterility), otolaryngological diseases (chronic rhinopharyngitis, chronic laryngitis, nasosinusal allergy), etc.
The resort has two modern treatment bases - one at the Mangalia health hotel (over 500 places in two- bed rooms) which is equipped with its own treatment facilities (four pools for sulphurous-water kinetotherapy, an electrotherapy section, two hydrotherapy sections, a pneumotherapy section, medical gyms and massage parlours, geriatrics cabinets, tests and functional explorations laboratories, acupuncture cabinets, pools with heated seawater, etc.), and the other at the Balneal Sanatorium for medical recovery, an institution boasting many medical sections with fine equipment and a treatment capacity of about 500 persons daily. The treatment facilities include medical recovery, devices for warm baths with sulphuretted water and sea water, mud therapy, kineotherapy, hydrotherapy, sauna, medical gyms, geriatrics rooms (Gerovital, Boicil, Pell-Amar treatments).
Here one can go riding, or visit the Museum of Archaeology, the Esmahan Sultan Mosque (Moor style, 1590), the vestiges of the Roman-Byzantine Church, 5th-6th centuries, Mercurius Collection (pipes and curiosities).
Access: by train-Mangalia railway station, on Bucharest-Constan?a-Mangalia line, by road DN 39 from Constanta, bus lines exist between Constanta and Mangalia;
ValceaBAILE OLANESTI
Known also under the name of “Izvoarele de Aur” (Golden springs), Baile Olanesti spa is located at an altitude of 450 m, on both sides of Olanesti Rivulet, an Olt affluent, in an inter hilly depression of the Southern Carpathians, 18 km far from Ramnicu Valcea. It naturally brings together two natural curing factors: the climatic and local topographical factor and the hydro mineral factor, represented by mineral waters, being the favourite spa of Elena Ceauşescu, the wife of the dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu.
Baile Olanesti it is on the top of the spas in Romania considering the number of springs, their daily total flow rate, as well as the variety of compounds and the concentration of mineral springs. The resort has over 35 hydro mineral sources, both as natural springs and as a result of some mining and drilling works (pits and galleries). A number of 15 mineral springs are caught to be used in internal cure. Two mineral springs and four mineral water wells are used in external cure.
The spa operates on a permanent basis and has sulphurous mineral water springs, lightly iodated, containing bromine, sodium, calcium and magnesium in different concentrations (oligo minerals, hypo tonic, isotonic, hyper tonics). These are known since the XVIIIth century.
The mineral waters were chemically tested for the first time in 1830. In 1873, at Viena International Exhibition, they were awarded the golden medal.
The mineral waters from Baile Olanesti are recommended in internal cure in the treatment of chronic diseases of kidneys and urinary system, digestive system, metabolic and nutritional disorders (mellitus diabetes, obesity etc.), respiratory disorders (viral and microbes generated lung diseases, allergic asthma, bronchitis etc.), dermatological diseases incipient ihtisis, chronic eczema and rash, neurodermatitis, acnes etc.) and ENT diseases (laryngitis, nasal and sinus allergy), associated diseases (degenerative rheumatic and di-arthritis pains, asthenia neurosis, endocrine disorders etc.). The spa is equipped with hot bath installations in bathtubs with mineral waters, for electro therapy and hydro therapy, with gymnastics rooms etc. There are 24 springs where the mineral water is available for drinking.
Baile Olanesti is among the few places in the country where treatments are developed for the strengthening of the body of people affected by various allergic diseases, by applying injection with isotonic sulphurous mineral water directly from the source. Not to mention, this treatment also represents a world premiere.
Types of procedures: internal curing with mineral waters; electrotherapy; hydrotherapy; medical physical culture.
CALIMANESTI – CACIULATA
Calimanesti – Caciulata Spa is situated in the central southern part of Romania (Valcea County), on the right bank of Olt River, in the Under-Carpathians Depression Jiblea-Calimanesti, at the altitude of 260-280 m, 18 km distance from Ramnicu Valcea Municipality. It is renowned for the therapeutic effects of its mineral waters, their healing power being known since the Romans’ time. Afterwards, even Napoleon the III, emperor of France used the water bottled here, which special carriages delivered to Paris.
The natural curing factors are represented by the protecting climate and the sulphurous, chlorine, bromated, with sodium, magnesium, mineral water springs (discovered in 1827), mainly hypotonic, with a concentration, chemical composition and variable temperature (mineralization between 0.5 and 11.5 gr/l; a- thermal, mezzo thermal 41°C and hyper thermal 49.5°C).
The spa is prescribed in the treatment of digestive diseases (chronic gastritis with hypo acidity, chronic constipation, chronic colitis), of hepatic biliary diseases (gall bladder diskinesics, chronic coli cystitis with or without gravel, chronic hepatitis, chronic pancreas diseases, post surgery conditions in liver diseases), diseases of renal and urinary system (gravel in kidneys, chronic skin nephritis, urinary infections), metabolic and nutritional disorders (diabetes mellitus, obesity), in respiratory diseases (bronchitis, chronic trachea bronchitis), diseases of peripheral nervous system (paresis, poliomyelitis effects), rheumatic conditions (spondylitis, arthrosis, poli-arthrosis, tendon diseases), post traumatic conditions (after wricks, fractures), gynaecological diseases (ovarian syndrome caused by menopauses), ENT diseases (chronic rhino sinusitis, allergic chronic laryngitis etc.), dermatological, cardiovascular or other kind of diseases.
Parenteral cure: intramuscular injections with sulphurous water against dermal allergy. Highly efficient treatments are also applied using GEROVITAL H3, ASLAVITAL, PELL-AMAR, BOICIL FORTE.
The treatment facility comprises modern bath installations, electrical therapy, hydro therapy, kineto therapy, aerosol therapy and inhalations, pump rooms for internal cure with mineral water, gyms. In Caciulata there is an operational sanatorium profiled on the treatment of the after-effects of epidemical hepatitis and a sanatorium for patients with silicosis.
Types of procedure: pump rooms with mineral water for internal cure, installations for baths with mineral water, thermal water basins for kinetotherapy, hydro therapy installations: affusions, plant baths, baths with carbon dioxide, Scottish shower, underwater shower, partial or total baths, galvanic baths, massage – shower, paraffin packings (inhalations), aerosol therapy installations, electrical therapy installations, medical gym, sauna, open air thermal pool with sulphurous water for rheumatism diseases, labs for functional tests, medical offices for various actions
In Calimanesti-Caciulata Spa there is an operational clinical branch of the Physical Medicine, Balneology and Medical Recovery Institute in Bucharest, the clinical facility of the specialized department of "Carol Davila" Medicine and Pharmacy University from Bucharest.
GOVORA
Is located nearby Ramnicu Valcea Municipality (about 20 km), in the central – southern part of the country.
The fist mineral springs were discovered in Govora at the beginning of XIXth century. The effects of the waters rich in chlorides and sodium, iodine, bromides and sulphides, magnesium and calcium provided the spa with a good reputation. These are used in the cures of different types of rheumatism (spondylitis, tendinosis or periarthritis), but, mainly, in the diseases of the respiratory system and oto-rhyno-laryngeal diseases.
Along with the traditional methods – internal and external cures with mineral waters, packings with vegetable slime, electrotherapy – the balneologists discovered here original methods of treating the asthma and other diseases generated by the air or the pollution from the work place.
Types of procedures: hot baths with iodine and sulphur mineral waters, baths with fir essences, baths with carbon dioxide, packings with warm mud, pneumonic therapy, aerosols, electrotherapy (galvanizers, diadinamic currents, magneto diaflux, solux ultrasounds), hydro electric therapy, kinetotherapy, massage, internal cure with mineral water.
Therapeutic prescriptions : the specialists recommend a vacation at Govora to those people who suffer from ENT diseases(rhino sinusitis, sinusitis, amygdalitis, laryngitis, oral pharyngeal mycosis), respiratory diseases (chronic bronchitis, trachea bronchitis, pulmonary emphysema, allergic bronchitis asthma), degenerative and articulations rheumatism, post-trauma post-effects, peripheral and central neurological diseases (paresis, poliomyelitis post-effects), associated diseases (gynaecological, endocrines, occupational diseases).
Mures
There are a few more spa tourism possibilities in Mures County, such as:
Cluj Napoca
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