Balçova Thermal Springs (Agamemnon)
Springs on the edge of İzmir that classical authors linked to the wounded soldiers of Agamemnon.
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- Source temperature
- 63°C
- Bathing temperature
- 38°C
- Bathing
- Indoor / Outdoor
- Accommodation
- Hotel on site
The Balçova springs, in a western district of İzmir, were known in antiquity as the Baths of Agamemnon, where according to Pausanias the king's wounded soldiers were sent to recover. They were used through the Roman and Ottoman periods and now supply a modern thermal hotel and treatment centre as well as the district's geothermal heating.
Balnevia view
Why visit
It is one of the few places where a bather can trace a spring from Homeric legend to a functioning municipal heating network, and İzmir's waterfront is twenty minutes away.
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The water
Thermal water
- Source
- Agamemnon springs
- Character
- Chloride- and sulphate-bearing thermal water, also used for district heating.
Location
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