Mineral and thermal waters are one of the country's old riches, and the spa resorts of Romania have grown around them since antiquity: the Romans used the springs at Herculane, and in the 19th century, under Austro-Hungarian influence, the villas and cure pavilions of Transylvania and the Banat appeared, followed by the resorts of the Olt Valley and Moldavia. The offer is varied: thermal springs and warm-water pools, salt lakes with mud, sparkling mineral waters for drinking and mofettes in the volcanic areas of Harghita and Covasna. Many resorts have renewed their treatment centres; others keep the air of a past era, with buildings still waiting to be restored.
Băile Herculane in the Banat has the longest history, and Băile Felix, near Oradea, is the largest spa resort in the country. In Transylvania, Băile Tușnad and Covasna are resorts of sparkling mineral waters and mofettes; on the Olt Valley, Călimănești-Căciulata has mineral springs, and in Bukovina, Vatra Dornei combines the cure with skiing.
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Top 100Romania's largest year-round spa resort, 8 km from Oradea: thermal springs of up to 49 °C, open-air baths that run all winter and a reserve of water lilies and thermal lotuses.
Top 100A spa resort more than two centuries old in the Dorna Depression: carbonated springs, peat mud, a park full of squirrels and the Spa Casino, restored and reopened as a museum.
Top 100A spa resort more than two centuries old in the Nemira Mountains: numbered mineral springs you drink from for free, the 1894 Art Nouveau Casino and the Nemira ski slope.
Top 100A spa resort 15 km from Sibiu with salt lakes formed where old salt mines caved in: in summer you swim in water that keeps you afloat, between white banks of salt.
Top 100Romania's oldest spa resort, recorded as early as AD 153, in the Cerna valley: hot sulphur springs, a Habsburg old town around the Hercules statue and free thermal tubs on the riverbank.
Top 100A spa resort in the Olt gorge between the Harghita and Bodoc mountains: naturally sparkling mineral springs, mofettes, a wellness centre with thermal water and trails up to Falcon Rock.
A spa resort in the Olt Valley, where the river leaves the Cozia Mountains: sulphur springs known since the 19th century, the Central Pavilion of 1886 and thermal pools open all year round.
A modern spa complex in Ocna Mureș, opened in 2023, with heated salt-water and fresh-water pools, saunas and treatments. It is above ground only: the old salt mine cannot be visited.
The second resort of the Romanian coast, on the strip between the Black Sea and Lake Techirghiol: three kilometres of fine sand and a sapropelic mud cure a few hundred metres from the waves.
Romania's best-known ski resort, above 1,000 m beneath Postăvaru: 12 slopes, among them Bradul, Lupului and Drumul Roșu, cable cars almost to the summit and summer trails.
Considered Romania's oldest mountain resort, from 1894, in the Cindrel Mountains: a chairlift towards Oncești Peak, the Oncești and Dăneasa slopes, Arena Platoș and Noica's grave.
A lido with two salt lakes formed where old salt mines caved in, 24 km from Cluj-Napoca, plus an indoor pool of warm salt water that stays open all year.
A mountain spa resort at 900 m in northern Harghita, with carbonated mineral springs you can drink from for free, old wooden villas, travertine caves and a new spa centre.
A heliothermal salt lake in Sovata, formed in 1875 over a salt massif: beneath a thin layer of fresh water the salt water goes above 40 °C in summer; a lido runs on the shore in season.
Romania's highest town, at 1,030–1,110 m: in winter the Clăbucet, Cocoșului and Subteleferic ski runs, and hiking and a summer toboggan the rest of the year.
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