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The most beautiful and most famous among
the Bulgarian Balneological resorts. Internationally known climate
therapy and health resort |
It is situated in the valley of the Sandanska Bistritsa river, at the
foot of the south-western stopes of Pirin. Without exaggeration the
climate of Sandanski can be described as unique. It lies at the western
end of Chepino Valley, one of the most attractive part of the Rhodopean
Mountains in Southern Bulgaria. There are 70 sources of mineral water
with curative and preventive properties.
The mineral waters (from springs and wells) vary considerably in temperature,
mineralization, radon, silicic acid and fluorine content, and are suitable
for treatment of a wide range of diseases. 9000 litres of water per
minute spring from the five thermal and mineral deposits in Ladjene,
Kamenitza, Chepino, Rakitovo and Kostadinovo.
Velingrad is situated at 750-850 m above sea level. Summer is warm,
winter is mild.Throughout the year, air temperatures are higher than
anywhere else in the country. The average annual temperature (14.7C)
is the highest in Bulgaria. The winter is mild and short, and the autumn
- long and warm. The relative air humidity is low (66 per cent), and
the annual duration of sunshine is no less than 2,436 hours. Sandanski
has the lowest annual rainfall in Bulgaria (127 litres per square metre)
and almost no foggy days. The air is remarkably clean and pollution
free. The average annual temperature is 10C; and the average July temperature
is 19C. The relative air humidity ranges from 65 to 75 percent.Surrounded
by age-old pine tree woods, the town favors abundant sunshine. This
exclusively rare and valuable combination has a beneficial influence
on the process of ionization (negative ions are prevailing) and are
of definite therapeutic importance. In the resort successfully are treated
pulmonary cases: pulmonary emphysema, chronic bronchitis, post bronchial
pneumonia, etc.
The treatment of non-specific diseases of the respiratory tract is
particularly successful. Considerable experience has been accumulated
in the efficient treatment of diseases of the locomotive system, nervous
diseases and gynecological disorders. Together with the numerous mineral
waters Velingrad takes pride in another natural phenomenon as well -
the Kleptuza. This is the biggest Karst spring in Bulgaria with debit
of 1200 litres of ice-cold water per second.
Apart from its natural beauty, lush vegetation and remarkably wholesome
climate, the resort also features a multitude of mineral springs. The
wells and natural springs situated in two thermal zones have a total
flow of 1,500 l/min. The mineral waters have a nearly uniform chemical
composition but contain varying quantities of metasilicic acid and fluorine.
The waters are clear , colourless, odourless with a pleasant taste:
silicic (containing 71 to 135 mg of metasilicic acid per litre), slightly
fluoric (3.2 to 6.5 mg of fluorine per litre), hyperthermal (42 to 81C),
slightly mineralized, containing sodium hydrocarbonates and sulphates,
with a pH value ranging from neutral to mildly alkaline (pH 7.2 to 8).
This remarkable combination of balmy, health-giving weather and curative
mineral waters makes Sandanski the perfect place for modern science-based
climatotherapy, spa treatment, rehabilitation, primary and secondary
prophylactics and recreation. Specialized in the treathment of upper
respiratory tract and lung deseases of non-tubercolosis type and of
inflammation degenerative diseases of the joints.
