The termalismo goes back to more ago than 2,000 years when the Roman ones already knew of the benefits of the water that used it to fight diseases and to cultivate the well-being and the personal beauty. The thermal cures, under the medical examination are the main reason for visit to the bath. At the moment the bath are a suitable place where to also improve not only the physical health but stress and the problems derived from an active and been busy life. The supply of the Bath has complemented in the last years with different types of tourist activities and leisure, grouping this way to people of different ages. A Spa is destined to cultivate the beauty, its objective is to offer spa of well-being. A place for the relaxation, antistress, taken care of of the health and the beauty by means of natural techniques and products with crenoterapia, peloides, seaweed, aromaterapia, etc. is to obtain a place of cures near its habitual habitat. One is a place that isolates the person of the daily activity. The health tourism is of oldest than they are known world-wide level. In Great Canary, the first tourists who went to the Island of a form more or less organized - around second half of century XIX belonged to the call health tourism. They were ill people of the lung, stomach and nerves that traveled to the Island attracted by the propaganda scattered by Europe, that spoke of miraculous treatments, and until by the own advice of doctors who recommended the climate and mineral water of Great Canary. Today, a century and several decades later, Great Canary maintains its prestige in the matter of health and rest, for which it has developed, like one more an alternative to the conventional tourism, an ample supply and infrastructures for the treatment and it consults for different affections or simply to mimar the body and to relax. In the Island are centers of health and beauty whose waters, rich in minerals and mixed with the water of the sea, very are adapted for treatments of rehabilitation, chronic reumatismos, ulcerosas injuries, cutaneous affections and of the bony system, as well as the fatigue and stress.
In the centers of Great Canary all type of techniques and services are developed, that go from the marine seaweed, muds, hidroterapia, baths with salts, bandage with aromaterapia and parafangos to the talasoterapia, termoterapia, presoterapia or lymphatic drainage, specific reflexoterapia, quiromasajes, massages, skillful vichy, Turkish bath, jacuzzi, sauna, jets in swimming pool and a long list of others. But not only their specialized centers confer to Great Canary the condition for being a destiny of health tourism, but that the whole Island is a paradise to forget stress, the fatigue, the desire to disconnect and the ailments that the daily activity creates. It is enough with the therapeutic strolls by his extensive golden sand beaches, with the baths in his crystalline ones and tempered loaded waters of sea of iodine, beneficial sodium and other elements for the body and with the contact with a oxigenante nature, that inevitably forces the relaxation.