Balneario Aguas Santas Orense

Balneario Aguas Santas Orense, in the city of Ourense — Spain's undisputed thermal capital, where geothermal waters break the surface in public fountains and riverside pools throughout the city itself — draws on chloride and sulfate thermal springs in a tradition of urban hot spring culture unique in the Iberian Peninsula. Ourense's As Burgas springs, flowing at 65°C in the city centre, have been used since Roman times as public baths and drinking fountains, creating a living thermal heritage that permeates everyday city life in a way found nowhere else in Spain. The Galician thermal tradition of Ourense, where natural thermal pools along the Miño river are freely accessible to all residents and visitors year-round, reflects a democratic public bathing culture deeply embedded in this inland Galician city's identity — making Balneario Aguas Santas part of one of Europe's most spontaneously thermal urban environments.