Most often, people recently want to spend their holidays, combining business with pleasure. To do this, usually go to the resort. There you can relax from everyday worries, have fun, see the sights, and at the same time and heal. When choosing a place to relax, people usually ask themselves: where is the best place to relax, and most often get the answer that the best holiday in the resorts of Europe.
And this is natural, because it was in Europe that the sphere of resort rest and treatment began to develop, and now it is in Europe that the best places for rest are developed. We present you a brief overview of the most popular resorts and hotels where you can spend your holidays.
Starting from the second half of the 17th century, in places where healing sources of water or mud were found, they equipped places for treatment. Considering the fact that the treatment could continue for quite a long time, the enterprising businessmen of that time, near these healing places, began to build houses for temporary residence. One of the first such equipped natural clinics that exists today is the terms in Sicily.
Harrogate is an old English resort, it has existed since the 16th century. and for the first time its description appeared already in 1626. And in 1925, a research department was built at the resort hospital. This resort has 87 healing springs, of which 16 are drinkable. There are also sulfur-salt, sulfur-alkali and ferruterous.
Since most well-to-do people could come for treatment to these remote places, housing was built up thoroughly, comfortable and even chic at that time, because it brought a substantial profit. Over time, small towns formed in such places, the main activity of which was to serve people arriving for treatment and just to rest, because most of them are located in picturesque places. These resorts lead excellent roads, and where possible, railways. There are even small airfields near the most popular resorts. Here are the main resorts in Europe, which have long been popular with the Russians.
Karlovy Vary – the most famous resort of the Czech Republic. It is located in the valley of the Tepla river at the place of its confluence with the river Ogroy. The picturesque hilly terrain gives this resort an unforgettable charm.
In the south-west of Germany, in the picturesque spruce forests of the Black Forest mountains, the German Baden-Baden is located. By the way, it was the development of resorts in Germany that the word Resort appeared, from the German Kur – treatment, Ort – the place, which means “place of treatment”.
Times change, and the contingent visiting resorts is changing. Now they have become quite accessible to the majority of the population with average incomes. And in order to provide everyone, the so-called spa hotels began to build at resorts. In resort towns there are usually several such hotels. They use the same mud and water that are used in health centers. In such hotels, people for a moderate fee can receive treatment procedures on site. Here is an example of such the most popular and well-known European spa hotels.
Medical SPA Hotel Brenners Park-Hotel in Bad Baden specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of various types of internal diseases. SPA hotel “Palace” in Bulgaria for the treatment of diseases of the musculoskeletal system, nervous system and overwork.
SPA hotels and Russia have appeared. One of these new Russian SPA-hotels “Villa Arnest” in Kislovodsk. There you can undergo treatment in full in the central sanatoriums of Kislovodsk, and besides, for a small additional fee you can receive a whole range of health procedures.
For those who just want to just relax, in many European countries there are SPA hotels located in the centers of large cities. In such hotels there are usually chic rooms and apartments, swimming pools, solariums, saunas and health complexes, where guests are offered the widest range of health treatments. A classic example of such hotels is the SPA Hotel “Hotel Sacher Wien” in Vienna. This is one of the most respectable hotels in Europe. Exists since 1876. The hotel is visited by members of aristocratic European families, art stars and famous politicians.
Great opportunities for those who want to relax provide SPA hotels located in beach areas on the Mediterranean coast. In these hotels, beach lovers can get all 33 pleasures. In addition to the beaches themselves, the hotels themselves have seawater pools and SPA complexes that offer a huge number of spa procedures aimed at improving health and preserving beauty.
We hope that this brief overview of popular holiday destinations in European resorts will give you the necessary information where you can relax in Europe and make the right choice. Enjoy your holiday!
