Thermes d'Amnéville - Thermapolis
- Location
- Amnéville, France
- Water type
- sodium chloride
- Temperature
- 34 °C
- pH
- 7.4
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.
Thermes d'Amnéville Thermapolis in Amnéville, Moselle, France, offers chloride mineral spring bathing at the thermal centerpiece of Lorraine's most successful post-industrial leisure complex—the former steel-making town of Amnéville has transformed its heavy industrial heritage into one of France's most visited tourism destinations, combining thermal bathing with the Amnéville Zoo (one of France's most visited zoos with over 700 animal species), a cinema complex, casino, and entertainment facilities that draw over three million visitors annually to what was once an industrial wasteland on the edge of the steelworks. The chloride mineral character of the spring reflects the geological richness of the Lorraine basin, where Triassic salt deposits and Jurassic limestone formations create mineral springs of genuine therapeutic character beneath the former industrial landscape. Amnéville's industrial-to-leisure transformation, with thermal bathing at its therapeutic core, represents the most commercially ambitious example of France's post-industrial reconversion through thermal spring culture.