Termas Chavasqueira
- Location
- Ourense, Galice, Spain
- Water type
- sulfurous
- Temperature
- 40 °C
- pH
- 7
Water profile
Relaxing — deep, immediate muscle release.
Rich in active gases or metals — a strong mineral character.
Soft water — natural, classic buoyancy.
Termas Chavasqueira in Ourense, the thermal capital of Galicia and 'the city of seven springs', are among the most dramatic free public hot springs in Europe — natural sulphurous springs that emerge at 65°C directly from the banks of the Miño river in the centre of the city, where the municipal thermal pools of Chavasqueira, Outariz and Muiño da Veiga allow free outdoor bathing year-round in naturally heated mineral water. The springs of Ourense, described since Roman times as Aquae Calidae, bubble up throughout the city and its river banks, and the culture of thermal bathing — informal, communal and free — is deeply embedded in Ourense's identity. The surrounding landscape of the Galician interior, with its vine-terraced valleys, Roman bridges, medieval monasteries and the exceptional Ribeiro and Ribeira Sacra wine denominations, provides one of the richest gastronomic and cultural landscapes in Spain as a context for this extraordinary public thermal tradition.