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Sovata is a small town form Mures county, situated on the upper course of the river Tirnava Mica, in the Praid-Sovata depression, at the SW foot of the Gurghiu Mountains (Eastern Carpathians), elevation 475-530 m, and fromn 60 km E of the municipality of Tirgu Mures. All-season resort of national importance, first mentioned as a place for cure in a 1597 document but recorded as a resort in 1850.
The fame of the resort is made by the lakes Ursu (46,000 sq.m.), Alunis (9,000 sq.m.), Verde (5,000 sq.m.), Negru, Rosu, Mierlei and Serpilor, with chlorided (high concentration - 40 to 250 g/litre), sodic waters evincing some heliothermal phenomena. In summer, the temperature of Lake Ursu (18.4 m deep), which is the biggest heliothermal lake, varies between 19-20°C in the surface layer, 30-40°C at the depth of 1 m and 40-60°C at the depth of 1.5 m.
The resort offers treatment mainly for gynecological diseases, but then also for generative, inflammatory and abarticular rheumatic diseases, posttraumatic conditions, endocrine diseases, cardiovascular diseases. The resort benefits by many treatment facilities (for warm baths of salt mineral water taken from the lakes, in tubsand pools; for gynecological treatments and applications of warm mud; pools for kinetotherapy; installations for electrotherapy and hydrotherapy; saunas; medical gyms; beaches on the shores of Lake Ursu and Lake Alunis, etc.).
Many opportunities for recreation, amusement and sports (club with mechanical games parlour, reading room, cinema, indoor pools, discotheques, bowling alleys, trips to the Saca Hill, the Cireselu Peak etc.).
Hostels:
Sovata Hostel
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