Terme Debrecen

Terme Debrecen draws chlorurated and bicarbonated mineral springs in Debrecen, the second largest city in Hungary and the historical and spiritual capital of Hungarian Protestantism, where the Great Reformed Church of 1823, with its twin golden towers and its capacity for three thousand worshippers, stands as the most powerful symbol of Calvinist faith in central Europe and the pulpit from which Lajos Kossuth proclaimed Hungarian independence from Austria in April 1849. The thermal springs of Debrecen, tapped from the deep Pannonian sedimentary basin that underlies the entire eastern Hungarian plain, emerge at temperatures suitable for rheumatic, musculoskeletal, and dermatological treatment in the Aquaticum spa complex on the edge of the Great Forest, the extraordinary urban park of ancient oaks that represents one of the finest examples of preserved lowland forest in Central Europe. Debrecen's position in the Hajdusag region, the homeland of the Hajdu people who served as irregular cavalry soldiers defending the Hungarian plain against Ottoman incursion in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, adds to the city's identity as a place where Protestant faith, Hungarian independence, and the mineral wealth of the Pannonian basin converge.