Rabka-Zdrój


Contemporary Rabka-Zdrój is a modern health resort designed for the recovery of both children and adults. Moreover, it is a popular resort, which attracts holidaymakers and tourists from all over Poland, both in the summer and in the winter. The advantages of Rabka-Zdrój include its climate, mineral water resources as well as landscape and tourist valors, which create excellent opportunities for active leisure.

 

Town's mineral springs are constituted by the chloride, sodium, iodide and bromine salines.
Applied in bath, mineral water and inhalation related treatments, it can cure rhinitis, anemia, allergic diseases, bronchial asthma, exudate diathesis, rickets, metabolism related diseases, as well as circulatory system diseases and arteriosclerosis.

Next to the health care - the main function of Rabka-Zdrój - is constituted by the development of the tourist function, which takes advantage of the attractive location of the city. In the summer, the town constitutes a mountaineering base. It also hosts the Pump Room and the Saline Pillar complex. From June 2009 the Health Resort Park hosts the Mineral Water Complex along with the Saline Centre. The rotunda shaped objects within its premises offer a vast medical hall where various types of mineral waters are available for patients.


The second part houses a saline centre (the only in the region of the Little Poland) also of the cylindrical shape. Right in the middle of the aforementioned room there is a column which housed within a wooden grill, is decorated with blackthorn branches. From the underneath located reservoir the saline is transported to the top of the column. It is there that via the specially prepared installation the saline flows down through blackthorn
branches thus creating saline aerosol around the column.

Within the area of the park, there is located the statue of Pope John Paul II - the tourist, by which the Pope's Path in Beskid Wyspowy begins. The path goes through the Karol Wojtyła's favorite places, the ones that he wandered to. In summer, the town constitutes Gorce and Beskid Wyspowy mountaineering base.

 

It is precisely in our town, where many tourist paths begin. The health resort provides a rich tourist and cultural offer; catering facility and broad accommodation base. Apart from the sanatoriums, it disposes of the numerous rest houses, pensions and guest rooms. Tourist paths, bike paths and walk paths, horse riding center, sport stadium, skate park, children's playground, a slope for skies and roller skates riding - they all encourage to spend holiday time right in Rabka-Zdrój.