This resort spa has been a lifeline for childless women: It looks as if the tsunami swept through it (PHOTO)
Its curative sulfuric water was used by soldiers of Roman legions in second century. Its mud bore the title of the best in Europe for its healing powers, and thanks to it, many couples had children
Sadness is now the name for a spa in the south of Serbia, which was considered to be one of the most beautiful, the most organized, the oldest and most healing in the Balkans, where the entire locomotor system was treated, and which was also the a lifeline for childless women.
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Kursumlija spa. It was created in antic times. Its curative sulfuric water was used by soldiers of Roman legions in second century. Its mud bore the title of the best in Europe for its healing powers, and thanks to it, many couples had children. Because of this, this is the only place in the world with a monument dedicated to egg cell.
As if nothing of this ever existed. The spa is still at the same place, ten kilometers away from Kursumlija, in former only way to Kosovo, but now there is rarely anyone alive here, and let alone medical mineral waters, mud, pools, hotels, villas... Everything that attracted the citizens of Serbia and Yugoslavia to it has disappeared.
This once popular tourist place has turned to desolation, as if the tsunami has swept through it. Modern pools, 250 beds, tubs, saunas of hotel "Zubor" became a bird residence, and perhaps of various animals. The source of healing water that flows out, a children's playground turned to backwater, mud and silt, and the surrounding villas "Yugoslavia", "Kosovo" and "Militia", are now ruins.
Kursimlija spa, whose golden age began in 1922 when Aleksandar Karadjordjevic gave it a status of a spa, has died in 2006. The rehabilitation center and Hotel "Zubor" of total 16.000 square meters, were closed for debt for taxes of 16 million dinars, and more than 130 workers lost their jobs.
The spa turned to wasteland.
However, it looks like there is hope. At the end of last year Minister of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications Rasim Ljajic said that there are some who are interested in its privatization. Prime minister of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic has promised the help of the state in searching for new owner, which has been in the hands of the Republic Pension and Disability Insurance Fund since 2012.