site.btaBelchinski Izvor SPA Complex with Nearly 40,000 Guests in 2025, Some 93% Bulgarians

Belchinski Izvor SPA Complex, located near the village of Belchin, hosted 39,486 guests in 2025. Some 93% were from Bulgaria, while the rest were foreigners, the complex told BTA.

The Gala Placidia spa centre features a large indoor mineral pool, an indoor children’s pool, outdoor hot tubs and jacuzzies with varying temperatures, as well as a large outdoor pool and a children’s pool. The spa area also includes a Finnish sauna, salt sauna, aroma sauna, steam bath, ice corner, and a relaxation zone with heated loungers.

Bulgarians are more familiar with the benefits of health tourism than foreign visitors, the hotel management said.

The SPA complex is the only one in Bulgaria to have its own mineral spring. The healing mineral water springs at a temperature of 41C to 45C. It is alkaline, with low mineralization, fluorine-rich, and silica-rich.

Belchinski Izvor noted that all mineral pools, jacuzzies, and hot tubs use only mineral water, without mixing it with regular water, unlike other resorts. They use a Swiss system that cools and heats the facilities without using additional spring water.

The year-round outdoor hydromassage jacuzzies and hot tubs are one of the complex’s signature features, with temperatures ranging from 36C to 41C.

The spa centre employs six therapists and three cosmetology specialists. Guests can enjoy anti-aging facial programmes, as well as restorative body therapies and massages, combined with the therapeutic mineral water.

The complex is currently undergoing renovation. New modernized facilities will be added both in the spa and accommodation areas.

In 2024 and 2025, Belchinski Izvor was awarded as one of the best four-star spa hotels in Bulgaria. It has also been nominated three times for Top Spa Hotel at the World SPA Awards. The complex was opened in the summer of 2019.

BTA presents news from certified spa, wellness, and medical spa centres in Bulgaria in its BG SPA: Salus per aquam, Health Through Water feature. Their total number exceeds 200. The initiative, organized in partnership with the Ministry of Tourism and the Bulgarian Union of Balneology and SPA Tourism, is linked to Europe's leading health tourism event, the HEALTHXCHANGE SUMMIT, which will be held from May 11 to 13, 2026, in Varna, Sts. Constantine and Helena, Golden Sands, and Albena. BTA will be the event's main media partner.