Thermal Hot Springs Therapy and Spa Facilities and Centers in Turkey

A thermal hot springs is a natural resource of water that is produced by the emergence of geothermally heated underground water coming up from the earth's crust. There are thermal springs all over the world even under the oceans and lakes. It is proved that the regions within the earthquake zone have extensive thermal hot springs capacity. Turkey, also being in an earthquake zone, have many thermal hot springs and spa centers distributed throughout the country. I will give you detailed information about the thermal hot springs in Turkey in this blog.

Being located on top of a major geothermal belt, Turkey is among the top seven countries in the world for quality and quantity of thermal hot springs with over a thousand of them having temperatures ranging from 20ºC to 110ºC.

Most thermal hot springs of Turkey are in the Marmara and Aegean regions and because of their proximity to popular travel destinations such as Istanbul, Izmir, Pamukkale and Marmaris, public transport is easy. Many of Turkey’s historical places developed because of their springs, like the ancient city of Hieropolis which was built upon the rich mineral springs of Pamukkale, and the ancient Kaunos, whose people took baths in the rich mineral mud of Lake Koycegiz.