Active tourism Krapinske Toplice

Active tourism is a temporary travel and stay, which is the main motive for recreation, outside his residence. Because of the need to participate in physical activities, visits and desires for watching various sporting events or any active or passive involvement in sporting activities on a personal level or the organized tourist destination for tourists prepare a variety of sports and recreational offerings. Thus, the capacity of accommodations are sports fields, gyms, fitness gym and other sports and recreational facilities are increasingly under the control of professional trainers. For lovers of active tourism prepared various adventure specialties such as rafting, kayaking, scuba diving, paragliding, climbing the cliffs of mountains, diving the depths of the sea, the wild nature cycling, caving, air tourism and other ordinary and unusual sports. The nature of man's movement, and accelerated pace of life, stress and more sitting and not moving during the work, on vacation people make up sport.

Krapinske Toplice is a tourist centre famous for its thermal-mineral water springs, which constitute the basis of development of tourism. The thermal spa dates back to Roman times (Aquae Vivae). Construction of the sanatorium started in 1772, when it also received its first guests (spa Dubrava) and in 1808 another spa was built, Rukavina. Upon the purchase of the entire complex, in 1862 Jakob Badel started to build several spas - Jakobova, Marijina and Pucka, as well as a hotel, a restaurant and a sanatorium building. He also had the park landscaped. Construction works within the spa continued not earlier than 1956, when the hospital department for treatment of rheumatic diseases and orthopaedic rehabilitation was opened. The water temperature is 39 °C to 41 °C, with a daily capacity of 5,600 hl. The water is radioactive and extremely rich in calcium, magnesium and hydro-carbonates. Both water and medicinal mud are used for treatment of rheumatism, gout, sciatica, muscular troubles, chronic inflammations, heart diseases, nerve disorders, post-infarction and post-surgical states, metal-poisoning, etc.

Numerous sports and recreational facilities (outdoor and...