Termas Victoria Caldas
- Location
- Caldas de Malavella, Girona, Catalonia, Spain
- Water type
- bicarbonate
- Temperature
- 38 °C
- pH
- 8
Water profile
Soothing — neither hot nor cold, perfect balance.
Loaded with major ions — the essential minerals (Ca, Mg).
Soft water — natural, classic buoyancy.
In Caldas de Malavella, a historic spa town in the province of Girona in Catalonia, Termas Victoria continues a bathing tradition rooted in Roman antiquity — the legions recognised the value of these springs at the foot of the wooded hills behind the Costa Brava two thousand years ago. The current balneario stands amid parasol pines and gardens, close to the ancient sources that Roman engineers had already channelled before the modern era.
The bicarbonate water emerges at 38 °C — warm and gently enveloping — with an alkaline pH of 8, reflecting the granite and volcanic geology of this part of the Catalan interior. The mineral character is light and clean rather than strongly saline, lending the water a softening quality during extended bathing. Caldas de Malavella is one of the most historically documented thermal sites on the Iberian peninsula, and Termas Victoria carries that heritage into the present in an atmosphere that balances architectural distinction with the unhurried pleasure of the Catalan countryside.