Hamat Gader
Roman thermal baths and open pools in the Yarmouk valley, water to about 50°C.
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- Température à la source
- 50°C
- Température de baignade
- 42°C
- Baignade
- Extérieur
- Hébergement
- Hôtel sur place
Hamat Gader sits in the Yarmouk valley where springs surface between roughly 42°C and 50°C. A modern bathing complex of open sulphur pools stands beside the excavated Roman baths, among the largest known in the region.
Le regard Balnevia
Pourquoi y aller
Very few sites let you swim in the same spring water that fed a major Roman bath complex, with the ruins themselves open alongside.
Recommandations
Hôtels à proximité
Découvrez où dormir près de Hamat Gader.
L'eau
Eau thermale
- Source
- Hamat Gader springs
- Caractère
- Sulphur and chloride-rich water among the hottest bathed in the region
Histoire
The baths flourished from the second century AD and were praised across the Roman and Byzantine world; the site includes a synagogue mosaic and later Umayyad-period remains.
Informations pratiques
The sulphur pools are hot and strongly mineral — sessions should be kept short. There is also an alligator farm on site, which surprises most first-time visitors.
Y aller
About 25 minutes by car from Tiberias around the southern Sea of Galilee; access is by road only.