Bursa Çekirge Thermal Hotels
- Location
- Cekirge, Bursa, Turkey
- Water type
- thermal, bicarbonate
- Temperature
- 48 °C
- pH
- 8
Water profile
Relaxing — deep, immediate muscle release.
Loaded with major ions — the essential minerals (Ca, Mg).
Soft water — natural, classic buoyancy.
Bursa Çekirge Thermal Hotels are a group of spa hotels in the Çekirge district of Bursa, northwestern Turkey, where naturally occurring sodium, sulfate, bicarbonate, and calcium-rich thermal mineral waters have been famous since Roman times and were developed into one of the most celebrated Ottoman imperial spa complexes during the fourteenth century, when Bursa served as the first capital of the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman sultans established the Çekirge thermal baths as a model of imperial luxury, and the district's thermal heritage — including Eski Kaplıca (Old Bath) and Yeni Kaplıca (New Bath), the latter built by Grand Vizier Rüstem Pasha — represents some of the finest surviving examples of Ottoman balneological architecture in Turkey. Today the Çekirge thermal hotels continue this distinguished heritage, offering guests therapeutic immersion in the alkaline, sulfurous thermal mineral waters of Bursa in a setting shaped by twenty centuries of thermal bathing culture and some of Turkey's finest Ottoman architectural legacy.