Les thermes

Les Thermes in Pierre-Buffière, a commune in the Haute-Vienne department of the Limousin region (now part of Nouvelle-Aquitaine) in central France, is a thermal spa in the landscape of the Massif Central's western granite plateau where the ancient basement rocks of the Hercynian Massif produce the mineral spring resources associated with the radioactive and bicarbonated waters of the Haute-Vienne's thermal tradition in the region historically known for its Limoges porcelain, tapestry weaving, and the medieval pilgrimage route to Compostela via Périgueux. The Limousin plateau's granitic basement naturally produces radon-enriched spring waters classified in the French balneological system as radioactive (radon), part of a long thermal tradition in the same geological province as the celebrated radioactive springs of Vals-les-Bains in the Ardèche to the east. Pierre-Buffière's thermal establishment offers a quiet provincial thermal spa experience in the green granite landscape of the Limousin, far from the bustle of the great French spa cities but deeply rooted in the traditional French provincial attachment to the mineral springs of the local earth, available to all who seek them.