Ciechocinek is one of the most important and the most popular health resorts in Poland. It is famous for the biggest in Europe wooden graduation towers and the climate pleasant for clients and favourable to health and rest.
The health resort is situated in a picturesque ice-marginal valley of the Vistula river between Toruń and Włocławek. At the beginning of the 19th century, large resources of brine have been discovered here. Stanisław Staszic, a feature writer and reformer of the Enlightenment period, initiated construction of the saltworks and in 1825 of wooden graduation towers used to evaporate water from brine. Around the graduation towers forms a therapeutic, rich in iodine microclimate.
Many sanatoriums have been opened here since the end of the 19th century, due to the air in Ciechocinek which is comparable to maritime air, therapeutic mud as well as brine and iodine and bromine springs.
One of the attractions in Ciechocinek is also the Spa Park (opened in 1875) with historic baths, a pump room serving mineral water, band shell and colourful carpets of flowers in summer.
People come to Ciechocinek to treat respiratory track diseases, cardiovascular diseases and motor organ diseases. Mineral waters and famous Ciechocinek salt with microelements are produced here.
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