Sandanski

The town of Sandanski is located at an altitude of 224 m in the foothills of the Pirin Mountains, along the reaches of the Sandanska Bistritsa river. The resort climate is indeed unique. Throughout the year, local temperatures are higher than inland temperatures – the annual average being 14,7°C. Winters are mild and short, autumns long and warm. Relative humidity is low (66%), there are over 2,436 hours of sunshine a year and fogs are rare.

The mineral waters are clear, colorless, odorless and pleasant tasting, silicic, mildly fluorine, hyperthermal (42-81°C), slightly mineralized, hydrocarbonic-sulphate-sodium. Resort conditions are particularly conducive to the treatment of bronchial asthma in its three forms – atopic, infectious allergic and combined. Already during the first week a marked clinical improovment is observed, with fewer attacks both with regard to frequency, strength and duration, and in more than 55% of the cases they disappear completely.

The comprehensive balneo-climatic treatment in the resort also exerts a beneficial effect on a number of other conditions :

• non-specific pulmonary diseases: chronic bronchitis, post-pneumonia or post-bronchopneumonia states, bronchiectasis, early pulmonary emphysema;
• conditions of the upper respiratory tract: chronic rhinitis, sinusitis;
• disturbances of the locomotory system of a degenerative or inflammatory origin: osteoarthrosis, rheumatoid arthritis, tenosynovitis;
• neurological complaints: plexitis, radiculitis, slipped disc;
• allergic skin diseases: urticaria, psoriasis;
• some kidney and urological diseases and coditions of the digestive system: gastritis, gastric and duodenal ulcers in remission, colitis, glomerulonephritis, cystopyelitis.