Terme 3000 Moravske Toplice
The Prekmurje spa built around Slovenia's unusual black thermal water, found by accident during oil drilling.
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- Source temperature
- 72°C
- Bathing temperature
- 36°C
- Bathing
- Indoor / Outdoor
- Established
- 1962
- Accommodation
- Hotel on site
Terme 3000 stands in the flat Prekmurje countryside of north-eastern Slovenia. Its signature is a dark, mineral-heavy thermal water — locally called black water — struck in 1960 by a crew drilling for oil.
Balnevia view
Why visit
The water itself is the draw: distinctly coloured, high in dissolved minerals, and unlike anything else in the region's spa belt.
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The water
Thermal water
- Source
- Moravske Toplice deep well
- Mineralisation
- Sodium hydrogen-carbonate, high mineral content
- Character
- Dark, mineral-rich thermal water drawn from a depth of over a kilometre
History
Drilling for hydrocarbons in 1960 instead produced hot mineral water at depth; bathing began in the following years and the resort grew from the 1980s onward.
Practical information
The resort combines medical treatment with a large leisure water park, so quieter thermal pools are separated from the slides.
Getting there
About twenty minutes by road from Murska Sobota, and roughly two hours from Ljubljana.
Location
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