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Domed circular pool hall with majolica tiles at Friedrichsbad, Baden-Baden

Baden-Baden/Germany

Friedrichsbad

A neo-renaissance Roman-Irish bath from 1877 where the route through seventeen stations is the point.

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Baño
Interior

The Friedrichsbad was built over Roman foundations and opened in 1877 as the most modern bath in Europe. Its seventeen-station Roman-Irish circuit — warm air, steam, soap-brush massage, cold plunge, domed thermal pool — is followed in strict order.

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Por qué visitarlo

For the domed central pool under blue and white majolica, and for a bathing ritual that has barely changed in a century and a half.

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El agua

Agua termal

Manantial
Fettquelle and Murquelle
Mineralización
Sodium chloride with lithium and fluoride
Carácter
Roman-era saline thermal water, cooled for the domed pool

Instalaciones

  • Thermal pools
  • Sauna
  • Massage treatments
  • Steam room
  • Relaxation areas

Historia

Built on the site of the Roman soldiers' baths of Aquae Aureliae; Mark Twain famously wrote that here you forget time within ten minutes.

Información práctica

Textile-free throughout; certain days are mixed and others single-sex. Allow three hours for the full circuit.

Sitio web oficial

Cómo llegar

In the old town at Römerplatz, a short walk from Baden-Baden's Kurhaus and Lichtentaler Allee.

Ubicación

Baden-Baden, Germany48.7625, 8.2411Ver en el mapa de Balnevia

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