The Sultaniye Thermal Spring and Mud Bath Have Been a Source of Health Since Antiquity

TIP – You can visit Sultaniye thermal spring and mud bath on our Private Dalyan Boat Trip.

The green water with a sulphureous scent that seeps out of a crack from a rock right beside the present thermal bath, is built on a square plan and covered with a dome, in which the hot therapeutic waters are located. This spring then moves into an open air which afterwards discharges into the lake. The pool mud bath situated on the other side of the thermal spring is another opportunity to feel connected to the earth in a healthy and pleasurable way Those who believe in the magic of this mud formed of the mixture of clay and the thermal water containing radioactive elements and other minerals think that the mud they cover their bodies with makes them at least 10 years younger.

They will sit beside the pool like clay statues as if they were part of an ancient ritual. Maybe these rituals that ate back to Antiquity are an extension of ceremonies in which the faithful asked for health from the deity. The ruins of buildings in the thermal spring area ranging from the archaic period to at least the Roman era indicates that the treatment facility and beliefs connected with it date back to the first  settlements in the region.