Salt baths · 60 minutes from our gate

The salt baths at Cacica

Three pools in the same village, with three owners and three prices. Worth knowing which is which.

Cacica has had brine forever, and for some two hundred and thirty years it has had a salt mine too. The salt water that comes out of the ground now reaches three different places, a few hundred metres apart, and each belongs to someone else. The difference between them is not the water, but what you can do there.

The three pools, one by one

the salt mine's 10 lei adult · 5 lei child The National Salt Company's open-air pool The salt-water pool that belongs to the salt mine. The cheapest around, but no other treatment services are offered here: you go in, you stay, you leave. The hours displayed in recent years: daily, 10:00–20:00. salt waterthe cheapestno treatments Open in the map the town hall's 15 lei / 2 hours The „Virgil Sahleanu” treatment centre The only place in the village where treatment is done too, not just bathing. It has physiotherapy machines, at 5 lei a procedure, and a senior doctor who comes three times a week. Season tickets cost 100 lei for twelve sessions and 200 for twenty-five, of two hours each. Places are limited, so call ahead. salt poolphysiotherapya doctor three times a weekseason ticketslimited places Open in the map private weekend rate during holidays Complex Agrement Cacica The fun part: fresh and salt water pools, an aqua park, an indoor pool, sauna and massage. Their published winter hours: Monday to Friday 12:00–21:00, Saturday and Sunday 10:00–21:00. salt waterfresh wateraqua parksaunamassage Open in the map

The prices for the open-air pool and the treatment centre were published by the local press, not by the operators. Take them as a guide; call before you set off.

Seven thousand years

The brine of Cacica, year by year

  1. fifth millennium BCthe people of the Criș culture boil brine to draw out salt; one of the oldest workings of this kind in Europe
  2. 1776Major von Mieg reports two brine wells in Bucovina, one at Pârtești
  3. 1783a commission led by the aulic councillor Thadeus Peithner von Lichtenfels surveys every salt spring in the province
  4. 1785an evaporating cauldron is built at the Pârtești spring
  5. 1790the Cacica salt deposit is found, in a well dug by chance
  6. 1791mining begins, with workers brought from Galicia
  7. 1956extraction moves to boreholes, dissolving the salt in small steps

Further on

A base for these days out

All of it, less than an hour from the gate.

The house is in Câmpulung, in the middle of the map: the monasteries east, the mountains west, the steam train north. You don't drive far to get anywhere.

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