Overview

The sulphur springs can be found at the banks of river Setrachos next to the Venetian bridge. The healing properties of the waters were known since antiquity. The whole area was part of the ancient Kingdom of Soli whose kings used the area as their wellness resort combining it with their hunting outings. It is said that a temple dedicated to Aesclipious, to the ancient god of healing, was situated on the same spot where the Lampadistis Monastery stands today. The spa waters have been used throughout the ages to this day for their healing properties. After the declaration of secularism and the movement of monasticism, the monastery of Agios Herakleidis was built on the same site and the Asklepiion was converted into a Christian Hydrotherapy Center. The hydrotherapeutic activity was interrupted during the time of the Turkish occupation, but it started again, first in the cells of the monastery of Agios Ioannis and later in the houses of the village of Kalopanagiotis and reached its peak during the decades 1920-1950. The therapeutic properties of the sulfuric waters of Kalopanagiotis have been repeatedly established by scientific analyzes in chemical laboratories in Europe. These waters can be used both for internal treatment (disorders of the digestive system, urinary organs, weakness and anemia and skin diseases), and for external treatment, with baths (rheumatic diseases, blood pressure, stimulation of the nervous system, skin diseases, etc.).