Sárvár Thermal Spa
- Location
- Vadkert krt., Hungary
- Water type
- sodium chloride
- Temperature
- 43 °C
- pH
- 7.3
Water profile
Relaxing — deep, immediate muscle release.
Loaded with major ions — the essential minerals (Ca, Mg).
Dense, salty water — you float without effort.
Sárvár Thermal Spa in Sárvár, Vas County, western Hungary near the Austrian border, draws chloride and iodide-rich thermal water from deep Pannonian Basin wells discovered in 1961 during oil exploration, transforming a small Transdanubian market town into one of western Hungary's most visited wellness tourism destinations. The spa's thermal waters are traditionally associated with well-being within a long thermal tradition, and Sárvár has developed extensive hotel and wellness infrastructure around its thermal resources. The medieval Nádasdy Castle — one of western Hungary's finest Renaissance fortifications, home to the infamous Elizabeth Báthory, the 'Blood Countess' — stands adjacent to the spa park, creating a combination of gothic historical notoriety and contemporary thermal wellness that gives Sárvár a distinctly unusual tourism identity.