Thermes de Saint-Amand-les-Eaux
- Location
- Saint-Amand-les-Eaux, Nord Department, Hauts-de-France, France
- Water type
- bicarbonate
- Temperature
- 37 °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.
Thermes de Saint-Amand-les-Eaux draws chlorurated mineral springs in the Scarpe valley of Nord-Pas-de-Calais, close to the Belgian border in the heart of the historic Hainaut region, where one of the largest spa complexes in northern France has been built around springs discovered in the seventeenth century by Franciscan monks of the local abbey, whose Baroque tower — the tallest brick campanile in France — still dominates the town's skyline. The spring waters, warm and rich in chloride, sodium, and calcium, feed a spa complex that includes one of France's largest thermal swimming facilities for aquatic wellness and conventional balneotherapy, appreciated for muscular relaxation and circulatory comfort. Saint-Amand sits in the Hainaut borderland, that cultural seam between French Flanders and Walloon Belgium where the ch'ti dialect, the estaminet cafe tradition, the carnival giants, and the industrial heritage of the mining basin give the region an identity as distinctive as any in northern France.