Alpamare — Pfäffikon

Alpamare in Pfaffikon is a pioneering thermal water park on the shores of Lake Zurich in the canton of Schwyz, which claims the distinction of having invented the European thermal water park concept in 1969 — first combining therapeutic mineral bathing, water slides, and family recreational facilities in a single indoor-outdoor complex, a format that has since been replicated across the entire continent. Its bicarbonate-rich mineral spring waters from the Molasse sedimentary basin beneath Lake Zurich are used in dedicated therapeutic pools alongside recreational facilities that have made Alpamare one of the most visited thermal destinations in Switzerland for over five decades. The spectacular lakeside location on the Zurichsee, with the backdrop of the Glarus Alps and the Rigi mountain, gives Alpamare a setting of extraordinary natural beauty for Switzerland's most historically significant thermal innovation.