Centre Thermal - Les Bains de Casteljaloux

Centre Thermal Les Bains de Casteljaloux is a French thermal station in Casteljaloux, a small town in the Lot-et-Garonne department of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, situated in the gentle hill country of the Landes-de-Gascogne at the edge of the great Gascony pine forest — the world's largest planted forest, covering over a million hectares of the southwest French Atlantic plain — where thermal mineral springs provide a spa resource in a region whose greatest cultural claim to fame is the foie gras and Armagnac production of the neighboring Gers department. Casteljaloux's thermal tradition draws on the mineral spring resources typical of the geological basement of the Gascony subbasin, where Cretaceous and Tertiary sedimentary formations produce warm mineral waters that are part of a long French thermal tradition associated with relaxation and well-being. The thermal center provides a community wellness resource in the pastoral landscape of the Lot-et-Garonne wine country — home of Marmande tomatoes, Agen prunes, and Buzet and Duras wines — giving the traditional Gascon way of life a thermal wellness dimension in the pine forest edge of the Atlantic southwest.