Terme Sv. Martin

Terme Sv. Martin draws bicarbonated mineral springs in Sveti Martin na Muri in the Medimurje county of northern Croatia, close to the Slovenian and Hungarian borders in the flat agricultural plain of the Mura river valley, where the warm geothermal water from the deep Pannonian sedimentary basin has been developed into a family resort and medical spa complex that serves as the primary thermal destination of Croatia's northernmost and most ethnically Croat county. Medimurje, the small triangular county enclosed between the Drava and Mura rivers, is Croatia's most densely populated agricultural county and its most intensively viticultural, its sweet wines, particularly the Gradevina and Muskat Momjanski varieties produced in the Medimurje wine road vineyards, having gained increasing recognition in Central European wine circles as expressions of the Pannonian microclimate at its most northerly Croatian limit. The bicarbonated springs of Sv. Martin, prescribed for rheumatic and cardiovascular conditions in the Pannonian geothermal tradition, flow in a borderland landscape where Croatian, Hungarian, and Slovenian cultural traditions overlap in the flat river country of the Mura, the thermal resort functioning as an anchor of local identity in a county that has historically been pulled between the competing gravitational fields of Zagreb, Budapest, and the Habsburg legacy of the entire Pannonian basin.