Eforie Nord

All-season resort of national importance belonging to the town of Eforie (population 9,461, July 1, 1991), is situated in SE extremity of Romania (Constanta Techirghiol, elevation 6-20 m, 14 km S of the municipality of Constanta. It has seacoast climate with hot summers (July average temperature above 22°c) and mild winters with little snow (January average 0°C). Low precipitation (about 400 mm annually). Low nebulosity in summertime when the sun shines for 10-12 hours daily. Natural cure factors are the excitant-stressful marine climate, the water of the Black Sea which is chlorate, sulfate, sodium, magnesium, hypotonic (average mineralization 15.5g), the salt water of Lake Techirghiol (average mineralization 70-80 g), and the sapropelic mud from the bottom of the lake, the solar radiation and the saline aerosols. The fine-sand beaches are maintained for sunbathing and wave therapy; on the shore of Lake Techirghiol there are two open-air treatment compounds endowed with facilities for applications of cold mud from the lake and enclosures for bathing in the lake. The resort suits both healthy holiday makers and ailing people who can take cures for degenerative (cervical, dorsal and lumbar spondylosis), inflammatory (rheumatoid spondylitis and polyarthritis) and abarticular rheumatic diseases (tendonitis, tendonitis, scapulohumeral periarthritis), peripheral neurological disorders (post-traumatic paralysis and paresis of the limbs, sequelae after poliomyelitis), dermatological, respiratory, gynecological disorders (ovarian insufficiency, chronic cervicitis, secondary sterility, etc.), Deficient growth in children, rachitis, decalcification, secondary anemia, etc. The resort has two treatment compounds (one connected to the chain of hotels Meduza, Delfinul and Steaua de Mare, and another to the 120-bed Grand Clinic of the Institute of Balneophysiotherapy and Medical Recovery - a study base for the specialized department of the Bucharest Institute of Medicine of Pharmacy), as well as numerous facilities for warm baths in tubs and pools with concentrated salt water form Lake Techirghiol, for warm baths and applications of mud, for gynecological treatments, aerosols and kinetotherapy, saunas, gyms etc.