Mehmed Paša Sokolović spa

Višegrad, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Location: Višegrad, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Water type: thermal
Temperature: 40 °C
pH: 7.3

Water profile

Thermicity

Sedative

40 °C

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Relaxing — deep, immediate muscle release.

Mineralisation

Balancing

LowHigh

Rich in trace elements — gentle on the skin.

Buoyancy

Standard buoyancy

LowHigh

Soft water — natural, classic buoyancy.

BicarbonatesCalcium

Tucked into a fragrant pine forest five kilometres from Višegrad in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Mehmed Paša Sokolović Spa sits at 460 metres altitude where cool mountain air complements the experience of bathing in its mineral-rich waters. Named for Grand Vizier Mehmed-Paša Sokolović, the remarkable 16th-century statesman who rose from a Bosnian village to lead the Ottoman Empire, the site draws on centuries of tradition linking mineral water, nature, and the Islamic practice of bathing. The area's geology is regarded as the source of its restorative spring waters.

Insider tip — Višegrad on the Drina River is the setting of Ivo Andrić's Nobel Prize-winning novel The Bridge on the Drina — a saga of five centuries of Balkan life centred on the magnificent Stari Most bridge. The Mehmed Paša Sokolović spa commemorates the great Grand Vizier Sokollu Mehmet Paşa, a Bosnian-born janissary who rose to become the most powerful man in the Ottoman Empire — whose patronage of architecture in his Balkan homeland included this thermal bath in his ancestral Drina valley.

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