Sources de Vittel - Hépar

Sources de Vittel Hépar in Vittel, Vosges, France, offers calcareous mineral spring bathing at the birthplace of the French mineral water industry—the Vittel spring complex, developed by Louis Bouloumié in 1855, established the model for the commercial bottling and marketing of French mineral water that made Vittel and its neighbors Contrexéville and Évian-les-Bains the foundation of France's internationally dominant mineral water industry. The Hépar source within the Vittel complex contains one of the highest magnesium concentrations of any French mineral water (119 mg/L), making it a particularly sought-after therapeutic water for constipation and magnesium supplementation in the French medical bathing tradition. Access to the Hépar spring in its original park setting within the thermal gardens of Vittel provides the direct geological connection to one of France's most commercially significant mineral springs, where the therapeutic tradition and the commercial mineral water industry share the same geological source.