About the bath
A large, solid building built as a classic bath with two sections. The bath worked until the end of the 1990s. After it closed, Sofia Municipality provided funding to rebuild it for a different use. After the renovation the building became a community centre (chitalishte) with an events hall, and the local people – and everyone in Sofia – lost access to the mineral water of the “Chepintsi” deposit.
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The water and its healing properties
The water rises at 50.5 °C. Chemically it is HCO3-SO4-Na, with a total mineralisation of 3.38 g/l, 3 mg/l of fluoride and 41 mg/l of metasilicic acid. Freely released gases by total volume: N2 – 97.2 %; CO2 – 1.2 %, He – 0.75 %; Ar – 0.81 %. The water is suitable for kidney and urological, gastrointestinal, liver and gall bladder, metabolic and endocrine, musculoskeletal, neurological and gynaecological conditions (Karakolev et al., 1984).
- Built
- 1970s
- Ownership
- Municipal
- Thermal Heritage register no.
- 96
- Information updated
- 03.2025
The bath's page at the Bulgarian Association for Thermal Heritage ↗