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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.

Balnevia

Banho
Piscina 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 que visitar

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.

Recomendações

Hotéis nas proximidades

Descubra onde ficar perto de Friedrichsbad.

A água

Água termal

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

Instalações

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

História

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

Informações práticas

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

Site oficial

Como chegar

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

Localização

Baden-Baden, Germany48.7625, 8.2411Ver no mapa da Balnevia

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