About the bath
A large complex of solid buildings in the middle of nature, built as a mineral bath and balneotherapy centre, with a men's and a women's section with pools, bathtubs, a doctor's office and changing rooms. The bath worked until the end of the 1990s, when it was closed; it was privatised in 2006.
The privatisation deal came with an investment programme to build mineral pools and a rehabilitation centre in the village, and “Etap Adres” also received a government concession to bottle the mineral water in Barziya. The spa complex was never built. The bath is closed and does not work.
“Today the people of the village remember with sadness the wonderful spa centre where doctors and health workers worked and patients came from all over Bulgaria. Unfortunately this socialist-era spa centre was sold, and the ‘Kom’ mineral water bottling plant was built in its place,” says the mayor of Barziya, Atanas Aleksov, in an interview with BNR Radio Vidin.
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The water and its healing properties
The water from the deposit is 31 °C. It is hypothermal, low in minerals, hydrocarbonate-sulphate, sodium and silicic water containing fluoride, with no sanitary-chemical or microbiological signs of pollution.
It has a beneficial effect on the following conditions:
gastrointestinal (chronic gastritis, gastroduodenitis with reduced gastric secretion, peptic ulcers, enterocolitis associated with reduced intestinal motility, etc.);
liver and gall bladder (gallstones, chronic cholecystitis, cholangitis, chronic hepatitis, biliary dyskinesia, etc.);
kidney and urological (chronic pyelonephritis, chronic cystitis, urate and oxalate stones, conditions after lithotripsy);
metabolic (gout, obesity, diabetes, etc.);
people exposed to harmful substances (it cleanses the kidneys and liver of harmful substances accumulated from the gases given off by factories, cars, etc.).
Used for external balneotherapy and balneoprophylaxis (after appropriate tempering to 33–35 °C), it has a beneficial effect on the following conditions:
degenerative and inflammatory conditions in remission – osteoarthritis, coxarthrosis, rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, etc.;
of the peripheral nervous system (disc disease, radiculitis, plexitis, polyradiculoneuritis, etc.);
after surgery on the musculoskeletal system (for kinesitherapy after injuries and operations);
skin conditions (chronic dermatitis, psoriasis);
gynaecological (chronic gynaecological inflammation of the female reproductive system – infertility, metritis, chronic adnexitis, etc.).
- Sections
- Separate men's and women's sections
- Built
- Around 1970
- Ownership
- Privately owned by “ETAP ADRES” AD
- Thermal Heritage register no.
- 83
- Information updated
- 02.2025
The bath's page at the Bulgarian Association for Thermal Heritage ↗