The town of Sandanski is located at an altitude of 224 m in the foothills of the Pirin Mountains, along Sandanska Bistritsa river. The resort climate is indeed UNIQUE. Throughout the year, local temperatures are higher then inland temperatures - the annual average being 14.7 °C. Winters are mild and short, autumns long and warm. Relative humidity is low (66%), there are over 2436 hours of sunshine a year and fogs are rare. The mineral waters are clear, colourless, odourless and pleasant tasting, silicic, mildly fluorine, hyperthermal (42-81°C), slightly mineralised, hydrocarbonic-sulphatesodium. Resort conditions are particularly conducive to the treatment of bronchial asthma in its three forms atopic, infectious allergic and combined. Already during the first week a marked clinical improvement is observed, with fewer attacks both with regard to frequency, strength and duration, and in more than 55% of the cases they disappear completely. The comprehensive balneo-climatic treatment in the resort also exerts a beneficial effect on a number of other conditions:
- a non-specific pulmonary diseases: chronic bronchitis, post-pneumonia or post-bronchopneumonia states, chronchiectasis, early pulmonary emphysema;
- conditions of the upper respiratory tract: chronic rhinitis, sinusitis; disturbances of the locomotory system of a degenerative or inflammatory origin: osteoarthrosis rheumatoid arthritis, tenosynovitis;
- neurological complaints: plexitis, radiculitis, slipped disc; allergic skin diseases: urticaria, psoriasis;
- some kidney and urological diseases and conditions of the digestive system: gastritis, gastric and duodenal ulcers in remission, colitis, glomerulonephritis, cystopyelitis. |
