Thermes d'Aedipsos — détail historique

Aidipsos (Edipsos) is the largest and most historically celebrated thermal spa town in Greece, on the northern coast of Euboea island, where bicarbonate spring waters of exceptional temperature — some emerging above 80 degrees Celsius — have been part of the bathing tradition since the time of Aristotle, who documented their qualities in the 4th century BC. The springs of Aidipsos were the preferred thermal destination of Sulla the Roman dictator, who rebuilt the baths after his Balkan campaigns in 86 BC, and in the 20th century Sir Winston Churchill stayed here in December 1945 after the wartime years — the photographs of Churchill relaxing in the ancient Greek thermal pools became some of the most-reproduced images of the post-war recovery period. The concentration of thermal springs in Aidipsos, with over 80 individual sources of varying temperature, and its 2,500-year documented thermal tradition, make it the most historically documented spa destination in the entire Balkans.