Thermes de Forges
- Location
- Forges-les-Eaux, Normandie, France
- Water type
- bicarbonate
- Temperature
- 38 °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 Forges are located in Forges-les-Eaux, a small spa town in the Seine-Maritime department of Normandy in the heart of the Pays de Bray, a circular geological depression carved by the Eaulne River whose distinctive bocage landscape of hedgerows, dairy farms, and clay-rich soils has given this corner of Normandy its unique rural character. The town's mineral springs achieved royal patronage in 1632 when Louis XIII, Cardinal Richelieu, and Anne of Austria came to take the waters in hopes of producing an heir — a visit that established the spa's aristocratic reputation and led to the development of the elegant casino and park that still define the town center. The bicarbonate-rich springs of Forges-les-Eaux, valued for centuries within a long thermal tradition, continue to draw visitors seeking traditional French thermal bathing in the quiet bocage countryside of eastern Normandy.