Terme Hajdúszoboszló

Hajduszoboszlo is the largest and most visited thermal spa town in Hungary, a city in Hajdu-Bihar County on the Great Hungarian Plain, whose extraordinary thermal history began in 1925 when petroleum engineers drilling for oil struck a geyser of hot water at 73 degrees Celsius that erupted to a height of 70 metres for several hours before being controlled — a geological accident that transformed a farming community into Hungary's most famous thermal resort. The chloride-rich thermal water from the deep Pannonian Basin sediments, highly mineralized and medically certified for rheumatic and musculoskeletal treatments, now feeds one of the largest thermal water park complexes in Central Europe, with over one million visitors per year. The Hajduszoboszlo Spa and Water Park, built on the site of the original dramatic 1925 geyser eruption, represents one of the most remarkable transformations of geological accident into economic and therapeutic destiny in the history of European thermal tourism.