Ribarska banja

Ribarska banja se nalazi u centralnoj Srbiji na obroncima planine Jastrebac, na 540 metara nadmorske visine.   Od Kruševca je Ribarska banja udaljena 36 kilometara. Banja je okružena šumama i nekada je ona služila za lečenje bolesnika obolelih od plućnih bolesti a danas predstavlja centar za rehabilitaciju pacijenata sa koštanim oboljenjima, povredama i problemima. Pored svoje medicinske svrhe, banja je pogodna i za porodični odmor i rekreaciju. Lekovita voda Ribarske banje, predstavlja predmet interesovanja još od 19. veka, kada je i dokazana njena lekovitost. Potencijal banje je primetio i Kralj Petar I Karođerđević koji je i svečano otvorio banju 1904. godine. U čast kralju, u banji je podignut bronzani spomenik u prirodnoj veličini. Dva bazenana na otvorenom, pešačke staze, netaknuta priroda i brojni rastorani, sa autentičnom domaćom kuhinjom i lokalnim specijalitetima, uz veoma povoljne cene, učiniće vaš boravak interesantnim i ispunjenim.

Ribarska Spa, the health and climatic resort, is located at the north slopes of Mt. Jastrebac (1491 m), at the altitude of 540 m, in the valley of the River Ribarska.

It occupies the central position in Serbia, 34 km away from Krusevac, 290 km from Belgrade and 100 km from Nis. Ribarska Spa has got six springs of sulphureous and mildly alkaline silicic water (38° – 42° C), andonspring of cold water (16° C), and one spring of luke warm sulphureous water (28.1° C). The Ribarska Spa water is medically used by bathing, drinking and rinsing.

The thermo-mineral springs of Ribarska Spa were probably used for therapeutic and other purposes in the 4th century when there existed a Roman settlement and fortification;
a legend relates the origin of the bath to the times of Princess Milica (14th century), while the foundations of an old Turkish bath, over which another one was built in 1853, according to the decree of Prince Aleksandar Karadjordjevic), indicate that it was used by the Turkish conquerors as well. (The Spa had been devastated many times in various wars; in 1876, the Turks demolished the place crumbling everything, apart from the main bath, to the ground level.)