Fortuna Vacation Rentals

Fortuna is in the region of Murcia. It has expanded over the past five years to a bustling town. The centre of town is dominated by the Church of the Immaculate conception which is a stunning centrepiece for the town and a well used one.
But Fortuna is most well known for its Banos de Fortuna a Spa bath that is not only famous for its healing water which comes up through the earth and is like immersing yourself in a beautifully hot bath, but the building which houses this phenonemon is music to the soul as well. There is a second Spa bath in Archena some 20 minute drive away. This bath has recently undergone massive renovation and is well worth a visit too. Many people have found that the healing properties in these waters do give them a remarkable lift from their ailments. There are several portals where the water emerges from the ground. Some of these have been captured beneath the hotels in the spa complex. From a normal hotel reception area, you take stairs down to two sets of double doors and once through those, you are confronted by a long - underground station size area tiled in very attractive high gloss bevelled white tiles. At intervals, there are doorways through which area tratment rooms. You have mud treatments, baths holding the Spa water, together with a range of treatments for the whole body. At one end of this vast complex is a wooden door through which you pass to a natural heat room. This is centuries old and where the water is piped from underground and up to a height, it then has been allowed to drop down into another aperture. The whole area where the water touches, it covered with a white glistening crystal mass. This is where the minerals from the water have coated the rock and solidified over the centuries. There is a small niche - just big enough for a sore elbow; you place your elbow in the hole and the water is only just bearable heatwise. This is another healing room. An area in this room holds a large square hole in the floor down which you can see the bowels of the earth and the steam coming up into the room. The mountains close to Fortuna house many caves, but one in particular, The Black Cave, is a very large cave which boasts an annual festival when the population of Fortuna take the Madonna up the mountain. There are many caves in the area and they are very sought after by the Spanish. The benefit of being a trogladyte is that caves keep an ambient temperature all the year round, so in summer they are cooler than in a house and in winter they are warmer. In the past I am given to understand that cave owners did not have to pay rates, but I think that may be a-changing. Inland Spain is such a different experience from the coastal way of life, which tends to be very touristic. When you spend time there and make an effort with the language, the Spanish people are so generous and friendly. Fortuna is well worth visiting - not only for the history but for the weather. Even in winter months the days can be wonderful. At night the temperature does tend to drop though.