SANDANSKI SPA RESORT

The Thracians founded Medius – a settlement between the foothills of 3 mountains – Pirin, Ograzden & Slavyanka. This ancient city also existed in the V – VI centuries, as is evidenced by the discovery of old Christian tombs. The tombs found by archeologists served as a Byzantine church devoted to the two healer saints St. Kozma and St. Damyan. When the Slavs settled in these lands they gave to the city the name of this church – St. Healer (Sandanski).
The town of Sandanski is located at an altitude of 224 m in the foothills of the Pirin Mountains, along Sandanska Bistritsa River.
The resort’s climate is indeed unique. Throughout the year, local temperatures are higher than inland temperatures - the annual average being 14.7° C. Winters are mild and short, autumns - long and warm. The relative humidity is low (66 %), there are over 2 436 hours of sunshine a year and fogs are rare.
The mineral waters are clear, colourless, odorless and pleasant tasting, silicic, mildly fluorine, hyperthermal (42-81° C), slightly mineralized, hydrocarbonic-sulphatesodium.
Resort conditions are particularly conducive to the treatment of bronchial asthma in its three forms atopic, infectious allergic and combined. Already during the first week a marked clinical improvement is observed, with fewer attacks both with regard to frequency, strength and duration, and in more than 55 % of the cases they disappear completely.

The comprehensive balneo-climatic treatment in the resort also exerts a beneficial effect on a number of other conditions:
- non-specific pulmonary diseases: chronic bronchitis, post-pneumonia or post-bronchopneumonia states, chronchiectasis, early pulmonary emphysema
- conditions of the upper respiratory tract: chronic rhinitis, sinusitis
- disturbances of the locomotory system of a degenerative or inflammatory origin: osteoarthrosis rheumatoid arthritis, tenosynovitis
- neurological complaints: plexitis, radiculitis, slipped disc
- allergic skin diseases: urticaria, psoriasis
- some kidney and urological diseases and conditions of the digestive system: gastritis, gastric and duodenal ulcers in remission, colitis, glomerulonephritis, cystopyelitis

The remarkable combination of balmy, health – giving weather and curative mineral waters makes Sandanski the perfect place for a modern climatic – therapy, spa treatment, rehabilitation, primary and secondary prophylaxis and recreation.