New 30,000 square metre wellness centre opens in Romania

Bucharest have upped their attempts to have the right to be mentioned alongside big European cities such as Rome and Vienna by opening a 30,000 square metre wellness, recreation and entertainment centre. The ‘Therme Bucharest’ can hold around 4,000 guests and includes 7 saunas, 8 swimming pools in addition to fifteen waterslides. It has also become one of the largest botanical gardens in the country by holding nearly one million plants. Three restaurants can also be found inside the centre.

A-Heat Group AG, based in Vienna, own the project and were helped along with the development by the German Wund Group, who also own a number of different thermal parks in Germany including Badewelt Sinsheim, Therme Bad Worishofen and Therme Erding. The centre is home to the deepest thermal drilling in over 35 years as the water is extracted from around 10,000 feet meaning that it contains iron, magnesium as well as sodium and calcium.

CEO of A-Heat Group AG, Hubert Spegel, has said “We are honoured and proud to open this complex in Bucharest, for which we employed the experience and imagination of a team of specialists from three countries; Romania, Austria and Germany.”

The centre is built with the capability to survive earthquakes helped along by a retractable roof as well as protection from tornados from specialised foils. The thermal waters will also be used to generate enough energy to power itself for the majority of the year. The general air temperature is thought to be around 30 degrees Celsius and the water at around 33 degrees Celsius, although it originally comes from the ground at over 80 degrees Celsius.

Different services are offered inside the centre including aromatherapy and peelings in the seven themed saunas; of which, each sauna is uniquely designed with its own sound system and can house over 300 people. Traditional and specialist massages and treatments will also be available in the three massage rooms. The benefits do not end there as ‘Aufguss’ sauna rituals are also performed which involves aromatic oil infusion and using towels to move hot air around in temperatures between 40 and 90 degrees Celsius.

It is thought that over half a million different flowers are in place in Therme Bucharest as well as 60,000 euonymus’, 40,000 roses, 3,000 shrubs, 1,200 trees and 500 palm trees that were brought in from four different continents. The palm trees are from Malaysia, Singapore, Florida and more and had to go through an acclimatisation period in the Netherlands for around 2 years before being ready for Therme Bucharest.

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