Terme Lijeva Rijeka

Terme Lijeva Rijeka draws bicarbonated spring water near Podgorica, the capital of Montenegro, in the rolling limestone hills of the Zeta valley where geothermal springs have been used for local wellness purposes for centuries in a landscape whose proximity to the Skadar Lake basin gives it an unusual natural richness. Lake Skadar, the largest lake in the Balkans and shared between Montenegro and Albania, covers between 370 and 530 square kilometres depending on seasonal water levels, its shallows carpeted with white and yellow water lilies and its uninhabited island monasteries rising from the silver water in one of the most photographically extraordinary freshwater environments in southern Europe, its pelican and cormorant colonies including the last surviving Dalmatian pelican breeding groups in the region. The springs of Lijeva Rijeka, valued for muscular relaxation and comfort, flow in a Montenegrin countryside where the extraordinary convergence of Skadar Lake, the old royal capital of Cetinje, and the Adriatic coast just fifty kilometres away makes the Podgorica thermal hinterland one of Montenegro's most rewarding areas for combining wellness with natural and historical exploration.