Caldas da Imperatriz

Caldas da Imperatriz is a historic thermal district in the municipality of Santo Amaro da Imperatriz, Santa Catarina, Brazil, whose name commemorates Empress Teresa Cristina of Brazil — consort of Emperor Pedro II — who bathed in these thermal springs during the imperial period of the nineteenth century, giving the site its royal association and cementing its status as one of Brazil's most historically significant thermal destinations. The thermomineral springs of Santa Catarina emerge in the lush Atlantic Forest landscape of the coastal mountain range, where geothermal waters have been valued within a long thermal tradition since colonial times. The site continues to attract visitors to its historic thermal facilities nestled in the forested valleys of southern Brazil's Serra do Mar.