Resort Bad Ragaz in Switzerland

One of the most beautiful Swiss resort of Bad Ragaz (Ger. Bad Ragaz) is located in the German-speaking Switzerland, just an hour's train ride from Zurich. It is situated at an altitude of 1 km above sea level.
Retired from Zurich to 120 miles, this magnificent spa resort located in the eastern Swiss mountain areas. This location makes the resort is accessible even to those who can not afford a long vacation. Center of the resort overlooking the sea level to 512 m and is surrounded by the Alps. Here you can get with what incomparable pleasure of enjoying the natural beauty, go skiing, play golf and bring your spiritual and physical health in order in a unique spa complex.
The resort is waiting for tourists all year round. Here, the mild climate and clear weather throughout the year.
Thermal springs of the town are famous around the world since the XI century. With a surprising therapeutic effect, the sources of water, heated to a temperature of 34 ° C, are located in Tamina Gorge. The first therapeutic hot spring was discovered in about 800 BC. Oe. five kilometers from Bad Ragaz. While this source was somewhat surprising and miraculous. Water from a drinking and bathing in it. He remained so to this day.
In the past, people who came to try the healing power of the source, were forced to go to him on the ropes to climb the steep mountain slopes, among which flows the source. Sick and suffering to the source were at the hands of monks. But with time and technological progress of the water source through pipes lodged in the city itself. Today, the waters from this source, the urban working SPA-complex Tamina, equipped with sauna, indoor and outdoor pools, caves and waterfalls and a Jacuzzi. This center is known throughout the world.
Water from the spring has a constant temperature of 35-37 ° C, contains fluoride, calcium, bicarbonate, magnesium and other minerals, so well used for swimming in pools, bathtubs. The spa center also offers mud baths, fluorine-containing bicarbonate-calcium-magnesium mineral water used for bathing, swimming in pools. Use as massage, hydrotherapy, mud therapy, stone therapy, Ayurvedic massage, as well as the methods of traditional Chinese medicine.
SPA center Tamina and himself Resort Bad Ragaz is a great place for the prevention and treatment of diseases of the cardiovascular system, disorders of metabolism, musculoskeletal, for post-traumatic therapy.
In the areas of rheumatology, cardiology, vascular medicine, orthopedics, pulmonary disease, Neurology Medical Center Bad Ragaz is one of the leaders in Switzerland.
But the Bad Ragaz is famous not only for its wonderful hot springs and natural values. In this town there are numerous historical monuments. For example, the palace of Hof, where the current is 5 star hotel "Quellenhof", was built in 1774. Also, the Gothic chapel of St. Leonard's, which dates from 1414 - 1418 years. Freidenberg Fortress, built in the XII, but now lies in ruins after the devastation produced during the war between the Swiss cantons in 1437. And also reconstructed in the early 18th-century parish church of St. Pancras.
For lovers of active leisure resort of Bad Ragaz offers plenty of opportunities: a casino, a golf course with 18 holes, outdoor and indoor tennis courts, riding lessons, walks through the many hiking trails along the river Tamina, as well as on the reserve "Five Lakes" specially designed and marked alpine routes. In winter, tourists and travelers are invited skiing. The resort has trails for snowboarding, toboggan runs and 50 ski runs, equipped with 13 lifts. From here you can get for skiing and the famous ski resorts such as Aros, Flims, Davos, St. Moritz and Laax.
Among the features and capabilities of the resort can be noted in the tour Sargans Castle, the Zoo, St. Gallen, Heidi Museum (the heroine of the touching tale of Swiss) in Maenfelde, a garden of medicinal plants, the state of Liechtenstein.