About Sandanski, Bulgaria
Globally famous climate therapy and health resort. It is located in the valley of the Sandanska Bistritsa river, at the bottom of the south-western slopes of Pirin.
Without overstatement the weather of Sandanski can be described as distinctive. Throughout the year, air temperatures are higher than anywhere else in the country. The average annual temperature (14.7C) is the highest in Bulgaria. The winter is warm and short, and the autumn - long and warm. The relative air humidity is low (66 per cent), and the annual duration of sunshine is no less than 2,436 hours. Sandanski has the lowest annual rainfall in Bulgaria (127 litres per square metre) and almost no foggy days. The air is very clean and pollution free.
Apart from its natural loveliness, lush vegetation, fertile land and invest able properties in this fast growing area and remarkably wholesome climate, the resort also features a multitude of mineral springs. The wells and natural springs situated in two thermal zones have a total flow of 1,500 l/min. The mineral waters have an almost uniform chemical composition but contain differing amounts of metasilicic acid and fluorine.
The waters are clear , colourless, odourless with a pleasant taste: silicic (containing 71 to 135 mg of metasilicic acid per litre), slightly fluoric (3.2 to 6.5 mg of fluorine per litre), hyper thermal (42 to 81C), slightly mineralized, containing sodium hydro carbonates and sulphates, with a pH value ranging from neutral to mildly alkaline (pH 7.2 to 8).
This amazing mixture of balmy, health-giving weather and curative mineral waters makes Sandanski the ideal setting for contemporary science-based climate therapy, spa treatment, rehabilitation, primary and secondary prophylactics and recreation.
Dedicated in the management of upper respiratory tract and lung diseases of non-tuberculosis type and of inflammation degenerative diseases of the muscles and joints.