About the bath
Berkovitsa is a balneological resort of national importance, designated in 1974.
At about that time one of the largest mineral baths and balneotherapy centres was built in the town park. It worked until the end of the 1990s as a medical mineral bath with a men's and a women's section, then was closed and privatised. It has bathtubs, a doctor's office, men's and women's pools and changing rooms.
In 2006 the mineral bath and 1 hectare of adjoining land in Berkovitsa were sold to the copper mining company “Elatsite Med”; the privatisation contract committed the new owner to renovate it and build a balneo and spa complex. The façade was repaired and a fence put up, but the spa complex was never built. The bath is closed and does not work.
The bath used to get its mineral water by pipeline from the “Barziya” deposit. In 2019, with European funds and money from Berkovitsa Municipality, a new mineral water pipeline from the Barziya deposit to Berkovitsa was built at a cost of over 1 million leva.
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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 1980
- Ownership
- Privately owned by “Elatsite Med” AD
- Thermal Heritage register no.
- 82
- Information updated
- 02.2025
The bath's page at the Bulgarian Association for Thermal Heritage ↗