Les Grands Thermes de Bagnères-de-Bigorre
Pyrenean sulphate springs behind an Art Deco glass hall.
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- Bathing
- Indoor
Bagnères-de-Bigorre has drawn bathers since Roman Aquae Convenarum, and today more than thirty springs of calcium sulphate and sulphurous water supply the town. The Aquensis bath house of 2005 wraps them in a glass-and-timber hall, while the nineteenth-century Thermes de Salut stand above the town as a monument.
The water
Thermal water
- Source
- Bagnères-de-Bigorre springs
- Mineralisation
- Calcium sulphate and sulphurous waters
- Character
- More than thirty springs supply the town; used for rheumatology and respiratory cures.
Practical information
At the foot of the Col du Tourmalet, half an hour from Tarbes; the leisure baths are open to all, while the medical cure is prescribed and taken over three weeks.
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