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We travel to Turkey, an ancient town that was once a stunning Ionian city, now in ruins. Located on the Aegean Sea, a strategic location that allowed the consolidation of an important cultural and commercial center in the ruins of Ephesus can intuit the impressive buildings of a wonderful city, including the facade of which was the oldest library in the world.

Ephesus is located north of Panayr, and was a major port city at the mouth of the river Cayster, with a town at the foot of Mount Pion and Mt Cores. Thanks to the remnants of the ancient city, Ephesus, is a major tourist attraction on the coast, especially for the many cruise ships that travel the area of Greece and Turkey, including a stop to tour the ruins.

Ephesus was founded as a Greek city in the eleventh century BC. The city is legendary, endured in Roman times, although permanent conflicts that left her in permanent sequelae most emblematic buildings. His fourth quarter, after more than twenty centuries, came to the 1,300, but his legacy remains preserved architectural wonders such as some believed, was the oldest library in the world, today visible only with its facade.

Huge theater with capacity for 24,500 spectators, as the temples of Artemis, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World of maintaining their ground and only a column of 20 meters in height, of the over 120 that supported the structure, churches, and stadiums, are among the ruins to discover.

Ephesus is a must for all cruising through the area, starting from the port of Kusadasi, about 20 miles. The ancient ruins of Ephesus are in a constant state of exploration and excavations constantly being discovered where new memories of its heyday.

Maastricht is a city in the Netherlands. The city about 2000 years old is one of the oldest cities in the country and has a vast cultural panorama.

Bonnefanten Museum is the largest museum in the city. The building dates from 1995 and is located along the river Maas. In this museum there are several collections and galleries of both the great works of the most important masters of earlier centuries as pieces of contemporary art. There are also curious collections of statues, vases and other utensils of clay and silver artifacts.

There are Marres cultural center in the huge rooms of the mansion home, variety of modern art. The mansion is a cultural center with a large organic garden and has an impressive library with a lot of books on the various streams of art.

There is also an underground museum with artifacts from Roman times under the Hotel Derlon. Other important museum is the Museum of Natural History also Spaans Gouvernement Museum, the Museum of Spanish government.

The city has many bookstores. One of the most famous is in Dominicanenkerk, a former church converted into a hotel that has a large reading room with frescoes on the walls.

In recent years, the city of Maastricht has earned a reputation for its many festivals. Music festivals are undoubtedly the most popular. The festivals entertain both older and young people. There are festivals for classical music, medieval music, dance, pop and jazz. Although music is the focus of this class of events, there are many festivals of theater, dance and poetry.

One of the biggest events is the Arts and Antiques Fair to be held in March. For a few days, art lovers can buy exclusive artwork and a large number of artifacts dating from the last 6000 years.

As the saying goes, Maastricht is music. In this city, as highlighted by the music festivals, there are the Opera Zuid Limburg Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Choral Society Mastreechter Staar. However, the theater is also one of the players in the panorama of the city. The Bonbonnière Theatre and Academy of Music in Maastricht, in addition to smaller theaters are the two bodies to give life to hundreds of plays in the city.

Markt Square is the Market Square which has now become a pedestrian area. Here is the City of Maastricht seventeenth century.

Wyck district is a historic district. Nearby is the Céramique district full of museums and ancient pottery shops. Both districts are filled with gourmet boutiques, antique shops with all kinds of treasures, and a variety of exotic restaurants.

The monumental Basilica Sterre der Zee, Stella Maris Basilica, dating from the eleventh century, is located in the Plaza Onze Lieve Vrouweplein. During the summer months, the square of the basilica is filled with lovely terraces.

In Vrijthof Square are the basilica and the church Sint Sint Servaas Janskerk. The Basilica of St. Servatius is filled with artifacts and ancient works of great religious significance, history and culture.

During the Christmas season, the city is full of lights. The whole center is filled with decorations, but highlights one of the most prominent neighborhoods, Jekerkwatier neighborhood where you can taste and buy delicious and typical products of the region. In Vrijthof Square is an ice rink for the enjoyment of the premises. During this period he also recommended to try the delicious traditional sweets, mulled wine, the oliebollen and waffles.

The city also has several parks, among which Stadspark Park, west of the river, or park Monsigneur Nolenspark, where the remains of city walls. Sint Pietersberg Nearby is a hill where Fort Sint Peter, the eighteenth century.

The Caves of St. Pieter, or San Pedro, form an impressive underground labyrinth with more than 20,000 corridors. The cave walls are filled with detailed drawings and inscriptions. Interestingly, for several sieges, especially during the Second World War, many city residents were hiding in underground caves to prevent the destruction of bombs. Today you can still see the facilities at the time.

The city still preserves many ancient blockhouses were built in the galleries to protect the city. The strong Helpoort was the old entrance to the city, dating from the XIII century and is the oldest in the Netherlands. Are also medieval walls and Fort Willem, dating from the nineteenth century.

Maastricht is located in the province of Limburg. Near the city is Limburg, a charming town full of Roman ruins and medieval castles. The vineyards, like forests, are part of the landscape of this town. Found in Limburg Limburg hills, and the hill is Cauberg Thermae 2000, a luxurious spa with views of nature. The spa has several natural sources of hot springs, and there is a large indoor pool, an outdoor pool and saunas.

A short distance from Maastricht is the Labyrinth of Three Point and countries. From this place, Vaals, visitors can see the countries of Germany, Belgium and Holland at a time. Also nearby are the Gaia Park Zoo and one of the country’s most spectacular gardens, the Mondo Verde. The gardens are located in Valkenburg, near the hills full of charming villages. The gardens have plants around the world, and visitors can see how China Siberia in winter or spring.

Landgraf is another nearby village, where Snow World. This place is famous for having three slopes in the interior, so that visitors can enjoy their favorite winter sports during most seasons.

Ever dreamed of a truly relaxing vacation? Far from lying in the sun, the spa has become supreme relaxation centers, but what actually offer a spa or a spa?

Here we have the details on this type of health tourism, which has its origins hundreds of years ago. Between healing waters and mud baths, discover the benefits of the Spa and hot springs to take a trip to drop you as new.

The origin of the Spa goes back to time immemorial and since that time, the thermal waters were used for therapeutic purposes. The note within these sites gives people, now located in Belgium, where it was famous in Roman times for its rejuvenating baths. That village is called Spa, and hence the origin of the word.

Beyond the Romans and their relaxation centers, the health tourism is preferred by those seeking alternate entertainment to improving the quality of life. Rest and relaxation seem to be the cocktail chosen to address the stress of life in large cities. And that is increasingly travelers opt to use quiet places that aim to restore harmony between body and mind. It is popularly called the recreational value of water: in these places the dispersion is combined with benefits for your health.

Another advantage offered by the Spa is the infrastructure to serve the convenience and taste of emergency. On the menu you can choose between different treatments (not all water use), some of them ancient. Here the saying of “Men sana in corpore sano” is realized through the practice of alternative activities like yoga, tai chi and various types of massage.

If after this introduction, you are planning a holiday of health, you can also have the possibility to visit the modern spas. Generally, the waters of these centers have healing components. But the very environment itself is often a place to relax with a good climate for rest and rehabilitation of those who visit.

Hot Springs
As the saying goes “All that glitters is gold” and therefore not all waters that flow from the land are not curative springs. To consider and, the temperature must exceed by more than five degrees to surface water because it comes from underground sources and in transit to the outside contact with hot stones, which give it the minerals. This gives the properties sought for the prevention and cure of diseases.

Today’s spas have changed their offer to introduce activities designed for the whole family, especially for children. Thus, many also include adventure tours with walking, hiking and horseback riding. After a day outdoors is nothing better than to take a break floating in warm waters.

Something to keep in mind is that many of these hot springs have temperatures ranging from 37 º C to 41 º C. Why is important this factor? Just to choose what time of year to travel. Due to high temperatures, the baths are an ideal destination for winter or cold months to warm.

Spas
Unlike the hot springs, Spa installation does not depend on the natural resources of the area. Therefore it is common to find in large cities. As low temperatures increase mood disorders, such as the winter is high season for these sites. The Spa is the ideal place to enjoy a restorative holiday without travel.

The supply is endless and the quality is getting better by the high demand. There are all kinds Spa, some transients to receive massage and enjoy a sauna and more complete than are usually far from the city. Mega hotels, there’s even dedicated to relaxation of the host.

Termas del sur
In addition to the variety of its landscapes, Argentina also offers therapeutic tourism. Copahue hot springs in Neuquen have thermal water originating from the volcanoes in the area.

The same applies to the hot springs of the region of Cuyo (Mendoza), since they occur at the base of the volcano Overo. In this same area you will discover two of the most visited sites both for its healing waters and for its landscape and tourism very broad: the Puente del Inca and the Baths of Cacheuta.

To the north, in Santiago del Estero, Rio Hondo Hot Springs offers a wide variety of services and proposals to suit budgets and styles of each traveler.

Finally on the coast you will find cities with their own baths and spas: In Concordia, Federation, Columbus and Villa Elisa therapeutic tourism is growing and calls increasing amount of passengers.

Puyehue hot springs
Crossing the Andes, the land of Neruda offers an impressive thermal center surrounded by mountains and volcanoes covered by beautiful foliage Puyehue Hot Springs. If you want access to it must enter the Puyehue National Park, so you will find yourself in a wonderful landscape that is part of a protected area. The water flowing from the rock it does at 37 degrees and is indicated for the treatment of bone diseases as well as for the rehabilitation of respiratory and nervous diseases.

Puyehue hot springs are now a spa and thermal center of unusual dimensions, with over 130 rooms that overlook a lake, windows overlooking the forest and even the volcano of which the water warm. You can swim in the pools of the site, both inside and outside the hotel-spa, and receive aromatherapy and relaxing music.

As I told you before, these natural environments complemented its offer with the usual sports in this area: fishing, paddling, trekking, cycling and more. And if you still want to do sports, if you can ski in winter because it enables a ski slope near the spot.

Health and relaxation in Maldives
This island is the Hotel Soneva Fushi, which offers a dream. The site designed especially for relaxation and privacy, is organized by small rustic houses located on the coast of the island, white sand and perfect weather. What makes this site more remarkable is that each cabin has a secluded beach for travelers to rest there. Without doubt a rare treats.

Les Sources de Caudalie
And as always, France offers some unique and luxurious for lovers of exquisite treatments: Les Sources de Caudalie in Bordeaux, is a center-spa different from everyone. It is the first to offer a treatment called “wine therapy”: a mud bath mud-or grape-scented. Imagine immersing yourself in a large barrel with the best European wine, mixed with hot springs and special oils to improve skin elasticity. No doubt many would come out drunk with pleasure of this treatment.

Hershey Hotel Spa
This is another spa where you can give a flavor: the Spa-Hotel Hershey, Pennsylvania in the region, offers the best you can imagine a fan of chocolate more chocolate! This luxury hotel, a visitor enjoys prodigious treatments as a session of aromatherapy candles and scents of cocoa as “seasoned” with vanilla and cinnamon. Then the “crematerapia” where you cover them with creams derived from the seed from which comes the chocolate and if missing something sweeter, add some honey while your skin and relax muscles are stretched.

Aguascalientes, very hot
In Aguascalientes, Mexico, and the hot springs are old. It seems that the entire state is painted by these waters that are found in several of its municipalities. Some of his most important resorts are Charco Azul, Borunda, Rancho Puente, Seats and Pichardo with hot springs, sulfur, minerals or just drinking. In Calvillo, city and municipal southwest of Aguascalientes can also visit the hot springs. The last resort is located near the border with the state of Zacatecas and medicinal hot springs. Finally La Cantera, 6 km. east of the city of Aguascalientes, a sulphurous spa waters of 36-38 degrees Celsius.

Hungary and the Gellert Baths
In Budapest, Hungarian capital, the Gellert Baths are already known since the beginning of the century. This large building on the banks of the Danube was built in 1918. Today is home to the Gellert Hotel and Spa, a place where you can choose between terminals 123 and 400 sources of mineral water. The baths are a wonder in itself: it is covered with ceramic tiles, decorated Columbus, stained glass, hanging plants and fine marble statues.

Almost every country has its hot springs, some large part of recreational facilities; others continue to emerge from the earth in remote places. The truth is that they are an invigorating and refreshing destination. If the year’s work has left you exhausted, spa and thermal centers will bring the vitality between curative baths, massages and therapies of all kinds.