Eger Termál Strand

Eger Termál Strand, in the historic baroque city of Eger in Heves county of northern Hungary, draws on sulfate thermal waters in a city whose layered history encompasses Roman settlement, Ottoman Turkish occupation, and Hungarian baroque magnificence — making it one of Central Europe's most architecturally extraordinary settings for thermal bathing. The naturally warm sulfate waters, extracted from the volcanic geology of the Bükk mountains rising to the north of the city, are used in the Termál Strand's outdoor pools and wellness facilities in a tradition of public bathing that survived both the Hungarian and Ottoman periods intact. Eger's extraordinary concentration of baroque architecture — the Eger Cathedral, the Lyceum, the Minorite church — together with the medieval Eger Castle, the famous Turkish minaret, and the world-renowned Egri Bikavér (Bull's Blood) red wine produced in the Eger wine region make the thermal spa an almost incidental pleasure among this remarkable northern Hungarian city's exceptional heritage.