FORTUNA
THE SPA TOWN OF FORTUNA
Fortuna is a small village
25km from Murcia City
Centre its at an Altitude of
240 meters above sea level.
The town is famous for
their Hot Springs, these are
thermal 38 degree springs
that surface from underground in the form of
fountains in the Banos de Fortuna, La Higuera
and La Cueva Negra, and are the same waters
enjoyed by the Romans during their occupation.
There are many bars and
restaurants in Fortuna many of
them catering for the English
palette.
ROMAN BATHS
MOUNTAINS
The Sierra De La Pilla National
Park is a great place to walk,
there are walks organised by
the local council.
PROPERTIES FOR SALE
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Roman sanctuary of the Black Cave: The Black Cave is along with the deposit of the Roman Baths, also in Fortune, one of
referring archaeological the most important ones at national and international level. The deposit of the Black Cave is located
in the Mountain range of Baño, to about 3 km of Fortune. One is a set of three oriented rocky shelters towards the sun and
with a water spring. This deposit directly is related to the other great Roman deposit of the municipality of Fortune: the Baths.
Both form a unique set to which during the Roman Antiquity numerous visititantes went looking for, on the one hand, the
sanadora capacity of their waters, and on the other, to shape their gratefulness, its thoughts and even their moods in the walls
of the Black Cave. In the environs, the Black Cave, pagan sanctuary with tituli picti or painted Latin texts between which they
excel fragments of the Eneida de Virgilio. Fortune was an important Roman center, as they demonstrate the rest of the spa.
