Les Thermes de Luchon
Pyrenean sulphur springs and a steam gallery carved into the mountain.
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- Source temperature
- 70°C
- Bathing temperature
- 34°C
- Bathing
- Indoor / Outdoor
Luchon's sulphurous springs, used since Roman times, emerge hot enough to feed the Vaporarium — a gallery driven into the rock where naturally humid, warm air is inhaled rather than bathed in. It remains the resort's signature, alongside conventional thermal pools and treatment rooms in the nineteenth-century bath house at the head of the allées.
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The water
Thermal water
- Source
- Luchon sulphur springs
- Mineralisation
- Sulphurous, sodium sulphide
- Character
- Hot sulphurous water feeding the pools and the naturally humid Vaporarium rock gallery.
Practical information
At the top of the Allées d'Etigny; the Vaporarium and the spa pools are separately ticketed, and the medical cure requires a prescription.
Location
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