Challes-les-Eaux

Challes-les-Eaux in the Savoie département of the French Alps, within sight of the Belledonne and Lauzière mountain ranges and close to the historic city of Chambéry, has operated as a recognised thermal station since 1820, when the sulphurous springs of the Combe de Savoie were first developed within a long thermal tradition. The thermal establishment has evolved from its nineteenth-century origins as a seasonal resort for the Piedmontese and Savoyarde elite into a modern thermal spa with structured wellness programmes. The town's setting in the pre-Alpine lowlands of Savoie, with easy access to the ski resorts of Les Sybelles and the Chartreuse massif, makes Challes-les-Eaux a thermal destination embedded in one of France's richest mountain recreation landscapes.