Who wouldn't want to give their body a relaxing break?
In a unique cave environment, a short walk from the ski slope and with beneficial effects on your health? Take a train to the heart of the mountain and experience a time-honoured healing treatment.
What will a stay in the radon gullies cure?
The treatment combines 2 principles:
- Heat
- Radon in the air
With a towel, bathrobe and swimsuit, you embark on a journey through the tracks. The train takes you gradually up to 2.5 kilometres into the mountain. With every meter you travel, you feel more and more heat, which has a beneficial effect on your body.
The train passes through 4 stations. You stop at the last one.
There's a deckchair waiting for you. While you lie on it and indulge in the beneficial heat, the stone surface of the cave above your head makes you imagine different things. What did this place look like when the miners first dug in during the Second World War?
Don't worry about radon in the air. It's regularly monitored by special laboratories. Plus, they won't leave you on a deck chair for more than 20 minutes. Its health benefits are evidenced by the fact that 90% of patients leave the caves in better health. Moreover, they return repeatedly.
And what does the cave help you with?
- Improvement of the musculoskeletal system
- Strengthening the immune system
- Soothing pain and inflammation
- Soothe muscle problems
- Improving the respiratory system
- Healing skin problems
You will spend a total of 10 to 24 treatments here. The healing effects will last up to six months after your last visit to the caves.
How did the radon caves come about?
Let's go back to the 16th and 17th centuries together. It was at that time that the desire for gold was at its peak and dozens of miners were working hard to extract the precious metal.
Mining was resumed during the war years. But then there was a surprise. The miners no longer experienced rheumatic and joint pains when they returned from the mines.
This consequence did not let scientists at the University of Innsbruck sleep. Indeed, after painstaking research, they published a study that confirmed the curative effects in the Gastein mine. Nothing stood in the way of the subsequent official opening to the public in 1952.
Experience the beneficial effects of the radon caves in Bad Gastein for yourself
Do not hesitate to book your accommodation in our hotel Residence AlpenHeart. The healing caves can be reached in just 7 minutes by car.