Thermes de Samothrace

Samothrace is a wild, mountainous island in the northern Aegean Sea, home to the famous Sanctuary of the Great Gods, where the legendary Nike of Samothrace — the most celebrated Hellenistic sculpture in the world, now displayed in the Louvre — was discovered in 1863 among the ruins of the ancient temple complex. Its bicarbonate thermal springs rise in the dramatic gorges that cut through the island's central mountain massif, the Fengari (Moon Mountain), whose 1,600-metre peak is the highest point in the northern Aegean and was said to be where Poseidon watched the Trojan War. Bathing in the natural thermal pools of the Samothrace gorges, fed by bicarbonate spring waters flowing through ancient volcanic and metamorphic rock, is one of the most untouched and mythologically charged thermal experiences in Greece.