Marlies Sobczak gave a retrospective of the ESPA Congress taking place in Druskinikai (Lithuania) in September. 220 Experts from 27 countries participated and for the first time, there was also attention for climate therapy and Thalasso. In addition to looking back, there is also a look ahead.

Maret Sukles (Fra Mare Thalasso Spa) explained that her native country Estonia will celebrate Haapsalu’s 200th anniversary as a spa town in 2025. The next European Spas & Balneology Congress will take place in Estonia from October 8 to 10, 2025. Estonia has a rich spa history, starting with the German physician Carl Abraham Hunnius, who studied in Estonia and introduced sea air, water and mud as therapeutic treatments in 1825.
Heat and water as therapy have an even longer tradition in Estonia. The first writings about sauna use there date back 745 years.

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