Baile Olanesti/Judet Valcea/Romania

Aile Olăneşti is a city located in Valcea County in the central part was about, Romania. City is also called the "Golden Springs", named due to the mineral springs iodine, bromine, sodium, calcium, sulfur and chlorine, hypotonic or istonic                                                                                                                                                                     

The city is relatively new, there not being Roman baths or anything that would lead to the conclusion that it is an old settlement (not the same be said of the area now part, Olăneşti - village). It sits on the Tisza valley (better known as the River Olăneşti) tributary of the Olt River, surrounded by mountains Gere, folk and Southern Carpathians Căprăreaţa whose heights are lost in the hills. This makes the winters mild and summers are cool.
Age of the city is discovering the existence identifies sources. Mineral waters from Olăneşti mentioned first time in a charter of 1760 and are called healing waters, these being in the estate of Thomas Olanescu Clucerului that builds the first spa rooms. Hence the famous name Olăneşti.
The head of the revolution of 1821, Tudor Vladimirescu retreat here on the estate Olăneşti with a loyal group of noblemen and so the news spread out the healing waters of the Romanian Country miraculous.
The first analysis was done on water in 1830, putting into evidence the presence of iodine

In 1868 Dr Carol Davila with a chemist, Bernath Lonway make chemical analysis of water, showing 40 springs. He got the first treatment establishments.
1873 year of the resort can count as local waters this year went to various exhibitions in Europe, return with medals of gold (the Vienna International Exhibition), so the settlement comes to the attention of the world, as compared with treatments in Baden -Baden, Karlovy-Vary the Bains and Aix.
But 1895 will bring the resort oblivion for almost 30 years. In that fateful year, a cloud burst causing large torrents of water which springs stopper. They will be retrieved and abroach after World War recaptate and the resort is given a new life. They made new hotel amenajeri were arranged to build a pavilion springs and mineral water baths in sulfur, have been analyzing the newly discovered sources, the most important and well known source No.24 (discovered through the 1950s) . It is said that the resort has thirty "veins" that are its reason for existence.
These springs are beneficial in the 1950s led to construction of treatment facilities for the occupants of Soviet and communist nomenclature, known as "Villa May 1." Later, after 1970 do not know what the reasons were upheld and other travelers, still fairly selected families of communist activists in general. The entrance was guarded by security forces until 1989. Since 1989 the MoD's been a long time, then became a ward of the hospital "Elias" in Bucharest.