A thermal hot springs is a natural resource of water that is produced by the
emergence of geothermally heated underground water coming up from the
earth's crust. There are thermal springs all over the world even under the
oceans and lakes. It is proved that the regions within the earthquake zone
have extensive thermal hot springs capacity. Turkey, also being in an
earthquake zone, have many thermal hot springs and spa centers distributed
throughout the country. I will give you detailed information about the
thermal hot springs in Turkey in this blog.
Being located on top of a major geothermal belt, Turkey is among the top
seven countries in the world for quality and quantity of thermal hot springs
with over a thousand of them having temperatures ranging from 20ºC to 110ºC.
Most
thermal hot springs of Turkey are in the Marmara and Aegean regions and
because of their proximity to popular travel destinations such as
Istanbul,
Izmir,
Pamukkale and
Marmaris, public transport is easy. Many of
Turkey’s historical places developed because of their springs, like the
ancient city of Hieropolis which was built upon the rich mineral springs of
Pamukkale, and the ancient
Lydian city of Kaunos, whose people took baths in the rich mineral mud
of Lake Koycegiz.
