In general, spas are established near natural or bored hot springs or mineral water springs. Swimming pools and Turkish bathes are often part of the particular spa. Sometimes an open-air bath and a hotel are also part of the spa where not only patients but everybody can enjoy the beneficial of the medicinal water.

The therapies applied at the spa most often are as follows: drinking cure, sitting bath, Turkish bath, mud treatment, medicinal weight bath, effervescent bath, paraffin pack, medicated bath, sand-bath, Kneipp-treatment, therapeutic exercises in water, hydro-massage, conventional massage, mouth-bath.