Balneario de Tolox
- Location
- Tolox, Malaga (Andalusia), 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.
Balneario de Tolox is located in Tolox, a white village in the Sierra de las Nieves of Málaga Province, within Spain's newest national park (Sierra de las Nieves National Park, designated 2021) and a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve — a protected mountain landscape of Spanish fir (pinsapo) forests, limestone peaks, and extraordinary biodiversity that rises dramatically from the Costa del Sol to create a cool green highland world just 50 kilometers from Marbella's crowded beaches. What makes Tolox's spring uniquely remarkable in Spain is its gaseous composition — the water contains exceptionally high levels of dissolved carbon dioxide, making it a distinctive Spanish destination for inhalation rituals within a long thermal tradition, with visitors historically coming to Tolox specifically for the 'inhaling room' where the carbonated mineral water vapors are delivered as aerosols. This distinctive gaseous experience in a village of classic Andalusian white architecture, surrounded by the extraordinary pinsapo fir forests found nowhere else in Europe, makes Tolox one of Spain's most distinctive and scenically spectacular thermal destinations.