16. November 2019 at 09:35

Domica cave will be used for speleotherapy

Another two Hungarian caves are involved in the project.

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In Gemer region, people can now look forward to speleotherapy, a type of respiratory therapy that involves breathing inside a cave. This unusual form of therapy will be implemented in the Slovak cave Domica, near Kečov, and also in the Hungarian caves Baradla and Béke.

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Hungarians will build one individual hall in Baradla Cave next to the existing route for visitors. In the cave Béke, two such halls already exist.

“We in Domica decided to build one hall, called Sanatorium,” said Ľudovít Gaál of the Slovak Caves Administration, as quoted by the TASR newswire.

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