Sart Çamur Kaplıcaları

Sart Çamur Kaplıcaları — the Sart Mud Springs — is a mud thermal bathing facility near Salihli in Manisa province, western Turkey, in the area of ancient Sardis — Sart in Turkish — the legendary capital of the Lydian Kingdom where King Croesus coined the world's first gold and silver coins, making this one of the most historically resonant thermal spring locations in the world, set amid the ruins of one of antiquity's greatest cities. The geothermal mud pools of the Sart area emerge from the Gediz graben, a tectonically active rift valley in western Anatolia where hot springs and geothermal fields are abundant, and the warm therapeutic mud rich in minerals is used for dermatological and rheumatic treatments in the classical pelotherapy tradition. Bathing at Sart connects visitors simultaneously to the living Turkish kaplıca tradition and to the ancient Lydian, Persian, and Hellenistic civilizations that once flourished in the shadow of Tmolus Mountain above ancient Sardis.