MEET EXTREMADURA
HEALTH TOURISM
THE JERTE VALLEY SPA
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Name
The Jerte Valley Spa
Address
Ctra. Nacional 110, Km. 383 10614
Telephone number +34 927 63 30 00 Fax+34 927 63 30 01
Webside: www.balneariovalledeljerte.com
E-mail: info@balneariovalledeljerte.com
Director
D. Juan Piñeiro
Location and access
The Jerte Valley Hotel Spa is situated in the municipality of Valdastillas, at kilometre 383 of the national N-110 road. The surface area is approximately 100,000 square metres, used entirely as a hotel-spa. The project was located in the middle of the Jerte Valley in response both to the needs of the zone and to the increasing national and international popularity of the Jerte Valley.
The “Valle del Jerte” Hotel Spa is becoming a point of reference on account of the growing tendency towards health tourism, the greater number of young people demanding beauty and relaxation facilities, an ageing populace and its own privileged situation which it owes both to its geographical proximity to the capital of Spain and to the potential of this area which today is undergoing a major process of expansion.
In this estate there is a spring of sulphurous water, easily recognised by its smell of rotten eggs. Down through the years it has been known by such names as "Fuente Salada”, “Fuente del Salobral”, and the present day “Baños de la Guarrapa”. It is well known on account of its therapeutic usefulness and there are written references dating back to the end of the 18th century which stand testimony to its existence and its rich mineral-medicinal properties. Recent investigations corroborate that fact: Haba Quirós and Rodrigo López (1991), Barrientos Alfajeme (1991), Flores del Manzano (1997) and Alcalde Molero (2000). As a point of historic curiosity we may quote the historian José Orlandis who, in his book “Life in Spain in the days of the Goths”, talks of the “Villa Gérticos” estate on the banks of the Jerte River as being where Recesvinto, King of the Goths died and where there was a spring of thermal water.
From 1925 to 1975 the Calle Family from the town of El Torno exploited the spring although rather than a business as such, what they did was attend to the needs of folk from the valley and from the neighbouring areas of La Vera and Avila, drawn here by the water’s effect on skin and the locomotor apparatus. However the conditions they worked in were very deficient, as was the way in which the waters were applied.
This area’s waters are identified by their ions as containing “sulphur, fluoride, sodium chloride bicarbonate” by the Chair of Medical Hydrology of Madrid’s Complutense University and are classified as mineral-medicinal by the Directorate General for Minas of the Extremadura Council.
Spa pools
SPECIFIC TREATMENTS
- Parafango: You will enjoy the warmest of sensations as you relieve your ailments by means of a mixture of mud and paraffin. The treatment lasts for 20 minutes at a temperature of between 42 to 48ºC.
- Pressotherapy: You will be able to calm your circulatory problems, celulitis, tired legs, retention of liquids by means of an agreeable massage applied by a sophisticated system. You may also combine this technique with different products specifically adapted to your needs.
- Paraffin: This will calm those pains in your joints whilst repairing and caring for the skin of your hands at the same time - they will recover their soft and silky feel. The treatment lasts for some 20 minutes at a temperature of between 48 to 52ºC.
- Massages: There are various types of therapeutic or relaxing massages for you to enjoy, each with a different duration and characteristics. During the massage you will be able to experience the properties of our oils whilst enjoying highly agreeable aromatic sensations.
- Wraps: Wake up your senses with a whole new range of sensational wraps - weed, limu (seaweed), mud, chocolate... Each one has its own distinct characteristic: moisturising, remineralising, slimming... They will enable you to discover the benefits of new bodily treatment techniques.
- Foot Reflexology: Our centre offers you the possibility of enjoying a marvellous foot massage. Through your feet, the therapist will work on the different systems of your entire body.
- Bubble Baths: We make available essential oil and marine seaweed baths. Enjoy them in our individual cabins, accompanied by relaxing music. Each bath lasts for 20 minutes.
Facial Treatments: There’s no need to go to a beauty centre.
- Oxygen Treatment: Facial cleansing, aromatic wraps, detox rubber masks, spherulite concentrates, anti pollution veils, protective water pearls.
- Facial Moisturising Treatment: facial cleansing, facial exfoliation, myo-mimetic balms, massages with Optimizar complex, snow masks with Osmolytex, face creams.
- Purifying Gel Skin Treatment: facial cleansing, deep facial exfoliation (extraction of comedones), ultra pure saline solution, clearing masks, normalising creams.
- Anti-aging Treatment (to reaffirm face and neck): facial cleansing, facial exfoliation, saline solution, refreshing cream, tensor balm mask, facial massage with “Descrip line” fluid, face creams.
- Exfoliation: Get rid of your skins’ dead cells by means of an agreeable aromatic peeling of the entire body. You may also experience the same treatment with a good essential oil massage: relaxing, invigorating, slimming and draining.
Physiotherapeutic Treatments: Our professional staff can provide you with electrotherapeutic and ultrasound programmes as well as water physiotherapy in the pool and stretching programmes.
Wraps:
- Slimming wraps: Enjoy a slimming green tea and red vine alchemy wrap. Its properties are anti-cellulite, depurative and slimming
- Chocolate wraps: with its base of pure cocoa extract, the function of this wrap it to eliminate the dead cells of the skin and to enhance the initiation of lypolysis whilst arousing our senses and moisturising our skin.
- Remineralising Wraps: made up of laminary seaweed, sea salt, minerals and oligoelements, the object of this wrap is to remineralise and to tone the epidermis, supplying it with elements essential for its wellbeing.
- Essential Marine Limu Wraps: SThe principal and fundamental active properties of this wrap is marine clay, extract of harpagophytum and essence of lavender and juniper oil. Its main benefits are that it is anti-inflammatory, remineralising, detoxifying, relaxing and it burns fat.
- Detoxifying Wrap: Based on marine limu, laminary and calcareous powder, its function is to prepare or repair skin that has been exposed to the sun and to detoxify and moisturise.
- Refreshing Cocktail Wrap: Based on menthol, laminary, sea water and calcareous powder, this serves to stimulate circulation and for tired legs and as an anti-cellulite.
- Magic Bust Invigorating Wrap: You can reaffirm your bust thanks to this wrap’s principal active properties, diatomaceous earth, spirulina and rice dust. Designed specifically for women, this treatment helps to improve your image and to remove stretch marks, invigorating and reaffirming your bust.
THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE WATERS
Chronic locomotor apparatus processes: degenerative (arthrosis), inflammatory (rheumatoid arthritits) and metabolic (gout), Para-articular alterations: tendinitis, bursitis, sore shoulder... Muscular contractures, Post traumatic and post surgery recovery, Chronic and allergic processes of the respiratory apparatus: otitis, sinusitis, rhinitis, pharyngitis, bronchitis and asthma, Prevention of respiratory infections, Physical and/or Psychical recovery.
The more than 1,500 square metres of the Thermal Centre, built on top of the sulphurous water spring, have been designed in the most rational way possible so as to best attend to the needs of our clients: a reception and a doctor’s surgery, changing rooms, areas in which wet and dry treatment techniques are applied, a Gymnasium and a beauty hall.
Spa Living Room
This area incorporates all the facilities which support the Thermal Centre and the Spa, including the:
Reception and Doctor’s Surgery.
Changing Rooms.
Dry treatment rooms. Four cabins for massage and beauty treatments will be installed in this space.
A Gymnasium with machines for maintenance and to aid recovery.
A Room for Relaxation.
A Beauty Hall and Hairdresser’s Salon.
Common Areas.
This is the space in which mineral-medicinal water treatments are given. Their duration will be 7, 15 or 21 days, according to the prescription issued by the hydrological doctor in charge and the following techniques will be used:
An acclimatised swimming pool (the temperature will vary between 37º and 39ºC), with three therapeutic treatment techniques.
A vapour hall, where the temperature will be a steady 45ºC and the humidity around 100%.
Circular showers.
Jet techniques.
Individual bathing rooms with a temperature of 37ºC. These cubicles will be prepared for baths, Vichy showers and mud treatments.
Breathing hall.
A room for the treatment of localised pains – in feet and hands, for example.
Conceived as a centre for acclimatised bathing with various techniques using non mineral-medicinal water, this area is intended for use by patients’ companions, weekend clients and external clients who do not require sulphurous water treatment. It will include:
An acclimatised swimming pool at a temperature of 30ºC in which various therapeutic and leisure facilities will be provided.
A collective jacuzzi with an average temperature of 39ºC.
A Roman thermal bath.
Scotch showers with a range of temperatures.
Sauna.
Following visits to hot areas, contrasting ice springs are available.
Cabezuela del Valle, Tornavacas, Piornal, Navaconcejo, Rebollar and Valdastillas.
