Sources Salées de Salins-les-Bains - Saline Royale
- Location
- Salins-les-Bains, France
- Water type
- sodium chloride
- Temperature
- 34 °C
- pH
- 7.6
Water profile
Stimulating — wakes the body and boosts circulation.
Loaded with major ions — the essential minerals (Ca, Mg).
Dense, salty water — you float without effort.
Sources Salées de Salins-les-Bains in the Jura department of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France, offers chloride mineral spring bathing adjacent to the UNESCO World Heritage Grande Saline Royale—one of the most important industrial heritage sites in France, where the subterranean salt extraction galleries dating to the thirteenth century and the surface evaporation facilities of this royal salt works produced the saline wealth that for centuries funded the Duchy of Burgundy and the Kingdom of France. The chloride mineral character of the springs derives from the same extraordinary saline geological formation that produced the Grande Saline's commercial salt—the Jurassic evaporite deposits that concentrated oceanic salt in the Jura rock strata over 150 million years ago, creating both a remarkable industrial heritage and a natural therapeutic mineral spring of genuine chloride richness. The combination of UNESCO World Heritage salt works and therapeutic saline spring bathing makes Salins-les-Bains one of France's most mineralogically and culturally coherent thermal destinations.