# Resorts and thermal baths — tourist attractions in Romania

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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](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/baile-herculane) in the Banat has the longest history, and [Băile Felix](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/baile-felix), near Oradea, is the largest spa resort in the country. In Transylvania, [Băile Tușnad](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/baile-tusnad) and [Covasna](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/covasna) are resorts of sparkling mineral waters and mofettes; on the Olt Valley, [Călimănești-Căciulata](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/calimanesti-caciulata) has mineral springs, and in Bukovina, [Vatra Dornei](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/vatra-dornei) combines the cure with skiing.

## Tourist attractions

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- [Băile Felix](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/baile-felix) — Resorts and thermal baths · Băile Felix, BH · Free · 4½ – 5 hours · Top 100
  Romania'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.
- [Vatra Dornei](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/vatra-dornei) — Ski slopes · Vatra Dornei, SV · Free · 2½ – 3 hours · Top 100
  A 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.
- [Slănic-Moldova](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/slanic-moldova) — Resorts and thermal baths · Slănic-Moldova, BC · Free · 2½ – 3 hours · Top 100
  A 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.
- [Ocna Sibiului](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/ocna-sibiului) — Resorts and thermal baths · Ocna Sibiului, SB · 35 lei · Top 100
  A 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.
- [Băile Herculane](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/baile-herculane) — Resorts and thermal baths · Băile Herculane, CS · Free · 3½ – 4 hours · Top 100
  Romania'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.
- [Băile Tușnad](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/baile-tusnad) — Resorts and thermal baths · Băile Tușnad, HR · Free · 3½ – 4 hours · Top 100
  A 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.
- [Călimănești-Căciulata](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/calimanesti-caciulata) — Resorts and thermal baths · Călimănești, VL · Free · 3½ – 4 hours
  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.
- [Ocna Mureș Salt Baths](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/ocna-mures-salt-baths) — Resorts and thermal baths · Ocna Mureș, AB · 80 lei · 3½ – 4 hours
  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.
- [Eforie Nord](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/eforie-nord) — Seaside · Eforie, CT · Free · 3½ – 4 hours
  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.
- [Poiana Brașov](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/poiana-brasov) — Ski slopes · Brașov, BV · Free · 5½ – 6 hours
  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.
- [Păltiniș](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/paltinis) — Ski slopes · Păltiniș, SB · Free · 4½ – 5 hours
  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.
- [Băile Cojocna](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/baile-cojocna) — Resorts and thermal baths · Cojocna, CJ · 50 lei
  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.
- [Borsec](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/borsec) — Resorts and thermal baths · Borsec, HR · Free · 3½ – 4 hours
  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.
- [Lake Ursu](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/lake-ursu) — Lakes · Sovata, MS
  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.
- [Predeal](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/predeal) — Ski slopes · Predeal, BV · Free · 3½ – 4 hours
  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.
- [Amara Resort](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/amara-resort) — Resorts and thermal baths · Amara, IL · 3½ – 4 hours
  A spa resort on the Bărăgan plain, on the shore of Lake Amara, sought out for more than a century for its sapropelic mud, used to treat rheumatism. It has treatment centres in its hotels, lakeside beaches and an arboretum.
- [Durgău Salt Lakes](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/durgau-salt-lakes) — Resorts and thermal baths · Turda, CJ · 40 lei
  A summer lido on two salt lakes formed in collapsed old salt pits, 100 m from the Durgău entrance of the Turda Salt Mine. The very salty water keeps you afloat; the mine is visited separately.
- [Covasna](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/covasna) — Resorts and thermal baths · Covasna, CV · Free
  The spa resort in the town of Covasna, Romania's "resort of the heart": carbon dioxide mofettes, sparkling mineral springs on every corner and the Devil's Pond, a mud volcano in the central park.
- [Ocna Șugatag](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/ocna-sugatag) — Resorts and thermal baths · Ocna Șugatag, MM · Free · 2½ – 3 hours
  A spa resort in Maramureș with salt lakes that formed on the surface above old salt mines, including Lake Gavril, 30 m deep; salt-water bathing happens in the pools of the local complexes.
- [Saturn](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/saturn) — Seaside · Mangalia, CT · Free · 3½ – 4 hours
  The resort that runs straight into Mangalia from the north: 1970s tower hotels, a beach in the middle of being widened, a public spa sanatorium and, behind it all, the Mlaștina Hergheliei nature reserve.
- [Stâna de Vale](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/stana-de-vale) — Ski slopes · Budureasa, BH · Free · 3½ – 4 hours
  A mountain resort at ~1,100 m in a spruce-ringed clearing in the Apuseni: the Izvorul Minunilor spring, marked trails to the Iad Valley waterfalls and to Bihor Peak, and plenty of snow in winter.
- [Telega Salt Baths](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/telega-salt-baths) — Resorts and thermal baths · Telega, PH
  Salt lakes formed over the old salt mines of Telega, near Câmpina: in summer you swim in water holding almost 277 g of salts per litre. The mine galleries cannot be visited.
- [Băile Govora](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/baile-govora) — Resorts and thermal baths · Băile Govora, VL · Free · 2 – 2½ hours
  A spa resort in the Vâlcea foothills, with iodine, bromine and sulphur waters, a spa park laid out in 1912 and the Palace Hotel designed by Ernest Doneaud.
- [Buziaș Spa Resort](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/buzias-spa-resort) — Resorts and thermal baths · Buziaș, TM · Free · 1½ – 2 hours
  A spa resort in the Banat with carbonated mineral springs, a listed historic park of over 20 ha and a wooden colonnade about 500 m long.
- [Lacu Sărat Resort](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/lacu-sarat-resort) — Resorts and thermal baths · Lacu Sărat, BR · 2½ – 3 hours
  A spa resort more than a century old, 5 km from Brăila, on the shore of a lake with hypertonic water and sapropelic mud. It has treatment centres, a historic park and a lakeside beach.
- [Lake Techirghiol](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/lake-techirghiol) — Lakes · Techirghiol, CT · Free
  Romania's largest salt lake, a former sea bay next to Eforie: cold mud baths on the Techirghiol shore in summer, flocks of rare birds on water that does not freeze in winter.
- [Rânca](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/ranca) — Ski slopes · Novaci, GJ · Free · 4½ – 5 hours
  A mountain resort at 1,600 m, at the foot of Păpușa Peak in the Parâng Mountains, on the Transalpina: a ski area with chairlifts and drag lifts, alpine pasture scenery and a starting point for the Parâng ridge.
- [Roman Baths of Germisara](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/roman-baths-of-germisara) — Monuments and historic sites · Geoagiu-Băi, HD · Free · 30 min · UNESCO World Heritage
  The Roman baths in the centre of the spa resort of Geoagiu-Băi: a sacred pool cut into a travertine mound, with channels, steps and rock-cut rooms, part of the Dacian Limes UNESCO site.
- [Sărata Monteoru Spa Resort](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/sarata-monteoru-spa-resort) — Resorts and thermal baths · Sărata-Monteoru, BZ · Free · 3½ – 4 hours
  A spa resort among the hills of Buzău, 19 km from the town, with a large lido filled with salt water from the local springs, the Monteoru family villa and short forest walks.
- [Sinaia](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/sinaia) — Ski slopes · Sinaia, PH · Free · 4½ – 5 hours
  A mountain resort at the foot of the Bucegi, at about 800 m: a park, a casino from 1912, a cable car to Cota 1400 and a gondola to Cota 2000, ski runs in winter and trails in summer.
- [Șugaș Băi](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/sugas-bai) — Ski slopes · Sfântu Gheorghe, CV · Free · 3½ – 4 hours
  A forest resort 8 km from Sfântu Gheorghe, with two ski runs served by drag lifts and floodlit at night, an adventure park, a spa, carbonated springs and hiking trails.
- [Therme București](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/therme-bucuresti) — Resorts and thermal baths · Balotești, IF · 71 lei · 4 – 4½ hours
  A thermal and wellness complex on the edge of Bucharest, on the DN1: geothermal pools under a glass dome full of palm trees, water slides, saunas and a sandy beach open in summer.
- [Arieșeni](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/arieseni) — Ski slopes · Arieșeni, AB · Free · 4½ – 5 hours
  A tourist resort in the Apuseni Mountains, at the source of the Arieș: the Vârtop I and Vârtop II slopes, with drag lifts and floodlit skiing, below the Vârtop Pass, plus trails to Piatra Grăitoare and Bihor Peak.
- [Azuga](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/azuga) — Ski slopes · Azuga, PH · Free · 4½ – 5 hours
  A resort town in the Prahova Valley with a ski area on the Sorica and Cazacu ridges: a gondola from the resort up to 1,539 m, intermediate and beginner slopes, and mountain bike trails in summer.
- [Băile Bálványos](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/baile-balvanyos) — Resorts and thermal baths · Turia, CV · Free · 3½ – 4 hours
  A spa and mountain-air resort in Covasna county, at 840–950 m in the forests of the Bodoc Mountains: naturally sparkling mineral springs, volcanic gas mofettes, sulphur caves and trails up to Bálványos Castle.
- [Băile Homorod](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/baile-homorod) — Resorts and thermal baths · Băile Homorod, HR · Free · 3½ – 4 hours
  A small resort in the Homorodul Mare valley, among spruce forests: carbonated mineral springs, a chapel from 1765, the Lobogó ski run in winter and an alpine coaster.
- [Băile Olănești](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/baile-olanesti) — Resorts and thermal baths · Băile Olănești, VL · Free
  A spa resort in a wooded valley below the Vâlcea mountains, with more than 30 numbered mineral springs, a springs walk along the river and Horea's wooden church, brought here from the Apuseni Mountains.
- [Băile Sărate Turda Lido](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/baile-sarate-turda-lido) — Resorts and thermal baths · Turda, CJ
  Turda's historic lido, on the Roman Lake, a salt lake formed in old salt workings in the Băile Sărate district. The town's spa was born here around 1840.
- [Borșa Resort](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/borsa-resort) — Ski slopes · Borșa, MM · Free · 4½ – 5 hours
  The tourist complex at Băile Borșa, in the Rodna Mountains: a FIS-homologated Olympic slope, a gondola up to 1,633 m, floodlit night skiing and, nearby, the slope at the Prislop Pass.
- [Bușteni](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/busteni) — Ski slopes · Bușteni, PH · Free · 4½ – 5 hours
  A resort town in the Prahova Valley at the foot of the Bucegi escarpment: the Kalinderu ski slope in winter, with a chairlift, a beginners' area and sledging, and trails to Caraiman, Babele and the Urlătoarea Waterfall in summer.
- [Cavnic](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cavnic) — Ski slopes · Cavnic, MM · Free · 4½ – 5 hours
  A small resort town in Maramureș, at the foot of the Gutâi Mountains, with two neighbouring ski areas, Roata and Icoana: chairlift-served slopes with floodlit night skiing, a sledging park, tubing and a snowpark, and a summer bobsleigh track reached by chairlift.
- [Durău](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/durau) — Ski slopes · Durău, NT · Free · 2½ – 3 hours
  A mountain resort at ~800 m on the north-western slope of Ceahlău: the starting point for Dochia Chalet, a monastery painted by Tonitza and a ski and sledding run at the foot of the mountain.
- [Harghita-Băi](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/harghita-bai) — Ski slopes · Harghita-Băi, HR · Free · 4½ – 5 hours
  A mountain resort at about 1,300 m, on the slopes of the Harghita Mountains above the town of Miercurea Ciuc: ski runs through spruce forest in winter, a mofette and ridge hikes in summer.
- [Moneasa](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/moneasa) — Resorts and thermal baths · Moneasa, AR · Free · 4½ – 5 hours
  A spa and climatic resort at ~300 m at the foot of the Codru-Moma Mountains: mesothermal waters of 25–32 °C, a thermal open-air pool, forest air and short trails to the marble quarry and caves.
- [Muntele Băișorii](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/muntele-baisorii) — Ski slopes · Băișoara, CJ · Free · 4½ – 5 hours
  A mountain resort in the Gilău Mountains, about 55 km from Cluj-Napoca: in winter, the slopes of Buscat Ski Resort, with a chairlift, sledging and tubing; in summer, waymarked trails to Scărița-Belioara and Muntele Mare.
- [Muntele Mic](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/muntele-mic) — Ski slopes · Turnu Ruieni, CS · Free · 4½ – 5 hours
  A mountain resort at about 1,600 m above Caransebeș: slopes such as Vâlsanu, Felix and Borlova, two chairlifts, night skiing at weekends and summer hikes to Țarcu.
- [Parâng Ski Resort](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/parang-ski-resort) — Ski slopes · Petroșani, HD · Free · 4½ – 5 hours
  Petroșani's ski area in the Parâng Mountains: two chairlifts climb from the edge of town to the chalets below Parângul Mic, with slopes for beginners and for advanced skiers.
- [Semenic Resort](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/semenic-resort) — Ski slopes · Văliug, CS · Free · 4½ – 5 hours
  A mountain resort at about 1,400 m on the plateau of the Semenic Mountains, beneath Piatra Goznei Peak: slopes with drag lifts in winter, hiking in the Semenic – Caraș Gorge National Park in summer.
- [Sovata](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/sovata) — Resorts and thermal baths · Sovata, MS · Free · 3½ – 4 hours
  A spa resort at the foot of the Gurghiu Mountains, with heliothermal salt lakes, healing mud, paths through the salt-ground reserve and, in winter, the Aluniș ski slope with a chairlift.
- [Straja](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/straja) — Ski slopes · Lupeni, HD · Free · 4½ – 5 hours
  A mountain resort at 1,445 m in the Vâlcan Mountains, above Lupeni: floodlit slopes, the 8.1 km Straja slope, a gondola from the town and summer trails to Mutu and Straja.
- [Șuior](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/suior) — Ski slopes · Baia Sprie, MM · Free · 4½ – 5 hours
  A mountain resort in the Gutâi Mountains near Baia Sprie and Lake Mogoșa, 18 km from Baia Mare: forest slopes between 668 and 1,000 m, a chairlift, floodlit skiing and a summer bike park.
- [Techirghiol](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/techirghiol) — Resorts and thermal baths · Techirghiol, CT · Free · 1½ – 2 hours
  The spa town on the shore of the salt lake, 16 km from Constanța: the balneal sanatorium with 12–18-day stays, the Saint Mary Monastery with its 18th-century wooden church, and accommodation in villas and guesthouses.
- [Venus](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/venus) — Seaside · Mangalia, CT · Free · 3½ – 4 hours
  A resort on the southern coast, three kilometres north of Mangalia: a recently widened beach, bays closed off by breakwaters, hotels with women's names set around a lake and sulphurous waters used for treatment.

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