About the bath
The Belchinski Bani resort has a rich history. After the healing properties of the water were discovered in 1889, local people built a small domed bath with volunteer labour, using material from a demolished mosque in Samokov. The money from bath tickets paid the salary of the teacher at the primary school. Once the bath was built, many other useful activities sprang up around it, such as building roads and bridges, planting forests and laying out a park. (Source: “The Belchin bath and its surroundings”, K. Markov, 1905.)
Under socialism holiday stations were built in the resort, and the new bath building was completed in 1958, owned by the Sofia District People's Council. After the changes the building was privatised and in 2008 became the property of “Synergon Holding” AD. The company also acquired the plot under the building: by Decision No. 127, minutes No. 6/25.02.2016 of its meeting of 25.02.2016, Samokov Municipal Council sold a plot of 6,758 sq m for BGN 135,160 excluding VAT. “The complex is a two-storey building – a balneotherapy centre with a total floor area of 680 sq m – and a bathtub section built on 164 sq m. The ground floor has two pools with toilets and changing rooms for men and women, and a doctor's office. The first floor has doctors' offices and physiotherapy. The bathtub section is an annex to the main building. Each bathtub section has an anteroom, and there is an inner courtyard between the existing building and the annex.
Considerable investment is planned to reconstruct the complex and turn ‘Belchinski Mineralni Bani’ EOOD into a modern balneological centre.”
In the seventeen years since the property was acquired, no investment in the building or its surroundings has been seen. Both are in a sorry state.
Opening hours
| Monday | 11:00–17:30 |
|---|---|
| Tuesday – Friday | 08:30–17:30 |
| Saturday and Sunday | closed |
ⓘ The table was made automatically from the text of the Bulgarian Association for Thermal Heritage and may contain mistakes; opening hours and prices may also have changed. Call 07124/2284 before you go.
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More information
The water and its healing properties
You can find all the benefits of the water on this website (https://synergon.bg/134/page.html/)
The water at Belchin Banya is hot (40–41 ⁰C), pH 9.2, with a total mineralisation of 0.97 g/l, containing sulphate, hydrocarbonate, sodium and fluoride ions and metasilicic acid in a colloidal state. It is classed as slightly radon water.
The water is suitable for treating and preventing conditions of: • the musculoskeletal system (joints, muscles, tendons, conditions after bone fractures); • the peripheral nervous system;
diseases of the spine (ankylosing spondylitis, disc disease, curvature of the spine); • metabolic disorders (diabetes, gout); • the female and male reproductive systems; • skin conditions and more.
- Sections
- Separate men's and women's sections
- Built
- 1958
- Ownership
- Privately owned by “Synergon Holding” AD
- Operated by
- “Belchinski Mineralni Bani” EOOD
- Thermal Heritage register no.
- 70
- Information updated
- 02.2025
The bath's page at the Bulgarian Association for Thermal Heritage ↗