The best thermal baths on the Costa Brava
Since as far back as the Roman times, the people of the Costa Brava have been exploiting the relaxing and healing qualities of the region’s many medicinal mineral waters and hot springs.
Today the thermal baths of the area pride themselves on offering clients the most modern and avant-garde of facilities and excellent professional services, in a therapeutic practise which dates back centuries.
We explore three of the best thermal baths on the Costa Brava.
Balneari Termes Orion
Situated at Veinat de Vall within the serene and neoclassical style walls of the Hotel Balneari Termes Orion, this height of luxury spa has been recently refurbished to ensure only optimum relaxation is achieved.
Set in the heart of nature and surrounded by woodland, mountains and grassy meadows, the water that emerges at this spring does so entirely naturally at 45 degrees Celsius. An extensive range of thermal treatments are offered at this this truly luxurious natural spring.
Balneari Vichy Catalan
Having been cited as being ‘A majestic Neomozarb building that is a jewel of 19th century Catalan Modernism”, the Balneari Vichy Catalan Spa is the place to go to unwind, relax and be pampered!
Built alongside a mythical spring, the spa contains only the purest Vichy Catalan water. This lavish spa provides a host of facilities and treatments, including a swimming pool, massage shower, inhalations, chiromassage, reflexology, paraffin baths, steam sauna and parafango.
Peralada Spa
The philosophy of the Peralada Wine Spa is based on accomplishing various therapeutic treatments using wine extracts to help improve one’s health and wellbeing by ‘combating free radicals and stimulating the production of collagen fibres and elastin, while promoting blood circulation.’
This luxury spa, which is located on the bank of a crystal clear lake in Peralada, Girona, comes equipped with a steam room, Jacuzzi, heated marble, a barrel shower, a sauna, a thermal circuit around its swimming pools, and an exclusive “Gran Claustro”, reserved for the spa’s most elite of clients.