Leukerbad, the largest spa in the Alps
The large spa in the Alps is in Leukerbad, a small Swiss village in 1500 living neighbors. A left corner in which to embrace the vastness of the white mountains and the warmth of his endless hot springs.
Imagine four million liters of water gushing from the bowels of daily alpine mountains at a temperature of 51 degrees. The snow is just one more in this festival companion thermal health and wellness in Leukerbad, a village in southwestern Switzerland considered “the largest spa in the Alps.
The Romans discovered the healing effects of the hot springs of Leukerbad. And see how the ailments of bones and skin problems are alleviated “miraculously” through these waters of Torrenthorn still come today, the nearby mountain where on clear days can see the legendary Mont Blanc and is very popular today among Alpine skiing enthusiasts. Then and now water flowing through the limestone rock, penetrating into the earth at 3,000 meters deep, to acquire a strong mineralization of calcium, sodium, strontium, iron and fluorine. Any source of health enjoyed by the 1,500 residents of Leukerbad, foreign tourists and even the Swiss Olympic team, which is produced here in an ultramodern clinic before attending the major events of winter and summer.
A journey of forty years
The question for the people of Leukerbad was until recently a guess how long it took to get water to the 65 hot springs in town. It was known that nine liters per minute cramming its springs, but it was only after making a curious experiment of “ink” a substantial volume of filtered water from the mountains when it was discovered that it took no less than forty years to appear in town. There is still a neighbor who analyzed the find in disbelief.
Today, Leukerbad, located at 1411 meters of altitude to its beautiful mountain coat Gemmi (in one of the walls of his top after almost a thousand meters can see the larger flag of Switzerland), is dotted with swimming pools, more twenty, led by the historic Burgerbad, a place well-known in the nineteenth century which proposes ten pools filled with jets, slides and a natural cave in the rock, a mixture of pool and sauna can actually skin pores open although one does not want.
The thermal paradise is complemented by private institutions and individual hotels that offer visitors their “spa” with the same characteristics of the water. Among the first highlights the Lindner Alpentherme with a huge choice of 250 treatments and an original Roman-Irish thermal circuit of eleven steps, with “hot and cold surprises” - which lets leave the bodies free from impurities through exfoliation techniques. The tour, which we must “cover” no bathing suit, ending at the top of the center with massage oils and soaps Hindu of Provence and a half hour of relaxation with a unique view of the pool outdoor Jacuzzis, always surrounded by snow. The price of this original ‘healthy walk’ is affordable, about 50 euros at the exchange, but we must expect that the whole process takes about two hours and even more can be extended if it matches the emission in the center of film in several languages within the pool itself, to 36 degrees. Another novel proposal to see movies in a swimsuit that is not lost.
Leukerbad has become well thanks to its waters into the third most important tourist destination in Switzerland, especially for Russians and Italians, after Zermatt and St. Moritz. Proof of this are his numbers: 28 hotels and resorts with over 1,500 beds, 1,700 apartments and 50 restaurants with varied cuisine and wines (more than 50 varieties achieved from vineyards planted at 1,100 meters) … Even the Swiss (75%) and Germans (10%) also enjoy it mainly because it is an excellent proposal to combine skiing and spas.
