Loutraki is a city on the shores of the Corinth Gulf, 4 km from Corinth. This is a famous resort city, which is popular in the country and abroad due to its mineral sources. Yes, even the name of the city itself comes from Greek λουτρά - "healing baths". If you drove to Corinth, then do not be lazy to get to Loutraki - the city and the truth is very beautiful! But what can I see.
Embankment Loutraki (Embankment Loutraki)
As you know, the city stretches along the sea a few kilometers, respectively, the main embankment Loutraki is quite long. It is one of the favorite places of tourists and local youth, which comes here with warm summer evenings "to see and be noticed." This embankment is a number of hotels of different star, as well as restaurants, coffee, discos, bars and taverns. And the most important place for entertainment is casino, by the way, one of the largest in Europe. Also from the embankment can be descended to the beaches of the city.
Waterfall with thermal water
This waterfall is constantly rusked by wishing to improve their health. The thermal waters of the temperature of 32 degrees have a healing healing property. Therefore, the pool is built at the bottom of the waterfall, where you can swim. Also next to the waterfall there is a cafe with a summer platform. This waterfall can be found on the Loutraki embankment, at the slope of Gerania Mountains, in the main city park. By the way, the city park is very good and striking vegetation on the territory - here shrubs, palm trees, and azaleas. The riot of greenery! And this is a great place for walking.
Sanctuary "Perahorsky Heroon"
This attraction is located next to the village of the reversal, northwest of Loutraki. Once the sanctuary was a beautiful temple, built in honor of the goddess of marriage and family of ger. Today is the ruins on the shore of a beautiful bay, next to the Lighthouse at Cape Malankavi. Scientists argue that the sanctuary was built in the 6th century BC at the place of the arched temple of the 8th century to our era. Building this (last) is built in the form of a rectangle, 10.3 x 31 meters. On one side of the construction, you can see the altar, decorated with triglyphs (vertically standing stone plates with triangular longitudinal gutters). By the way, on the site of the ruins in the middle of the last century there was a popular picture of the "three hundred Spartans". So, to the visit is necessary!
Lighthouse at Cape Malagavi
The lighthouse was built in the 19th century in the Perahor district, which in the northwest Loutraki. At that time, this coast of Loutraki was actively used by ships and boats as a pier, but the rock near the shore was sometimes not visible during bad weather or fog. So, many vessels simply broke the rock. Therefore, it was decided to build a lighthouse 100 meters from the coast. This lighthouse is quite beautiful, made of light stone, with a green dome.
Thermal source (Georgiou Lekka 24)
Here is another place of health, so to speak. This 5,000 meter spa is located in the city center, next to the Hotel Marko Hotel on L. Katsoni Street. In general, it should be noted that the mineral springs glorified Loutraki for a long time, even the warriors of the Macedonian, and maybe he himself came here to heal the wounds obtained in combat campaigns.
By the way, they argue that Loutraki is the oldest thermal resort on earth. But now officially therapeutic properties of local waters were recognized only in 1847, and in eight years founded an enterprise for the use of healing sources providing services in the field of tourism and health care. Thus, the waterproof resort of Loutraka began to 1925.
Water from the source can be drunk just like that. The use of mineral waters is shown in the disease of the musculoskeletal system, liver and biliary tract, as well as when problems with leather and neuralgia. In this source, the temperature is up to 30 degrees and in cold streams and bathe, and hydromassage are made - in general, health is correcting and come out from there updated.
There are mud baths, sauna and massages. Feeling indescribable! Bodriti and relieves fatigue, tones and relaxes muscles. The pools are not very deep, a little more than a meter in depth.
The spa is extremely popular both among tourists and local. By the way, the sources are very beautifully decorated - small structures similar to the temples, with columns, mosaics, painted ceilings and walls where you can see the motives from Greek myths. This is the oldest thermal center of the city, and there is also a newer and stylish, on the same street.
You can try treatment once, and you can undergo a course of serious treatment, after posting for a consultation to a doctor who will select the optimal procedure course. If there are no time for long procedures, go to a short reception, which costs about 18 euros for 1.5 hours. The hydromassage and swimming in the pool for 45 minutes costs 10 euros, half an hour - 8 euros, massage and swimming in the pool is about 25 euros. More serious procedures are from 30 euros. The center has a bar where you can drink tea or juice, as well as mineral water from the source (for free). You can choose and combine procedures as you like, besides, it is quite inexpensive. Locker rooms and cabinets are free. There are Russian-speaking staff at the reception. The only negative is that the accommodation in the spa center is not possible, so if there is no strength to return back (where did you come from), it's easier to remove a hotel or apartments, good, in Loutraki they cost at all cheaply, compared to at least with The nearest Corinth (one and a half - twice, for example, the apartments can be removed for 25-30 euros per day for two). Also in the center you can buy preparations based on these useful waters and mud and continue treatment at home. Here is such a pearl of the city! Be sure to visit, you will not regret!
Gerania Ridge (Gerania Ridge)
This is an unprepacent attraction, a mountain range, which stretched out five kilometers from north to south and 25 km from East to West. Rocks are almost not covered with some kind of vegetation, although there are anosets - "oasis". Lutraki is almost surrounded by gerany slopes. The highest point of the city of the North - 1105 m). The ridge will enjoy fans of hiking, but the mountaineers will be boring here. But the place and the truth is beautiful, with many beautiful routes and a trail, small churches and Byzantine monasteries on the way.