Kaiafas

[1][2] It has been reputed since ancient times to have therapeutic properties,[3] and it has indeed been medically attested to be of a curative character for musculoskeletal diseases and conditions.

The site of Kaiafas thermal springs is endowed with a beautiful natural environment, nowadays protected under the NATURA 2000 regime.

[4] The river and cave area has been a tourist attraction for millennia, originally being the center of the myth of the Anigrides, to whom people would pray, and bathe in their waters in order to cure afflictions like leprosy.

They were used again after the foundation of the Modern Greek State, whereas the first facilities were built in 1907, when the construction of a railway connecting the site to the city and port of Patras made it possible from people to visit from afar.

[6] Between 1960 and 1999 the premises were under the tutelage of the Hellenic Tourism Organisation; in 2000 they came under the Public Properties' Enterprise and in 2007-2008 they were refurbished to properly serve the standards of a modern clientele.