Balneario Manzanera Teruel

Balneario Manzanera is a mineral spa in the Sierra de Javalambre of inland Aragon, drawing bicarbonated spring water in the Turia river valley near Manzanera, a small limestone town in one of the most sparsely populated and most overlooked corners of the Iberian Peninsula, where the Aragonese interior preserves a landscape of medieval villages, Islamic fortifications, and Romanesque churches with very little tourist infrastructure. The medieval walled town of Albarracín, perching on a rocky spur above the Guadalaviar river forty kilometres away, is consistently voted among the most beautiful towns in Spain for the harmony of its rose-red limestone architecture, its intact circuit of medieval walls, and the extraordinary state of preservation of its streets, mansions, and cathedral. The bicarbonated waters of Manzanera flow in a province of Teruel that rewards the visitor willing to venture beyond the main tourist routes into an Aragonese hinterland of remarkable historical depth.