The discovery of Attica’s first officially recognised medicinal thermal spring – located in the suburb of Glyfada – was a long and painstaking journey that started in dusty history books, Dr. Konstantinos Kouskoukis revealed to the Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA) on Monday.
ANA reports that the man responsible for tracking down the forgotten spring, whose discovery was announced last week, Dr. Kouskoukis was a former deputy rector at Thrace University and specialist in dermatology who came across references to its existence while researching his book “Spa Tourism and Thermalism”.
Following up clues in the historical archives, which referred to a spring situated in the region of Aixoni in Glyfada, Kouskoukis and staff from the Glyfada muncipality began by talking to local residents and found that older people, especially, remembered the existence of such a spring when they were young.
The Glyfada municipality is currently working on a development plan to exploit the Aixoni spring after its recognition by the tourism ministry. According to the relevant authority on spas and thermal springs, the waters at Aixoni are recommended for the treatment of rheumatism and related complaints, sciatica, lumbago and nervous system ailments.
Dr. Kouskoukis was a former deputy rector at Thrace University and specialist in dermatology who came across references to its existence while researching his book “Spa Tourism and Thermalism”
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