SPA Termal de Pedras Salgadas

SPA Termal de Pedras Salgadas is an elegant thermal spa and spa park in the municipality of Vila Pouca de Aguiar in the Trás-os-Montes region of northern Portugal, where bicarbonated carbonated mineral springs — the 'salty stones' (pedras salgadas) from which the spa takes its name — were bottled commercially as one of Portugal's most celebrated mineral waters and gave rise to a Victorian-era spa village designed with an architectural sophistication that led to its recent designation as a protected heritage ensemble and transformed by the contemporary Vidago Palace Hotel group into one of Portugal's most remarkable spa regeneration projects. The Pedras Salgadas Spa & Nature Park has restored the Art Nouveau chalés and thermal pavilions of the historic spa village in the pine forests of Trás-os-Montes, creating a destination that combines the naturally carbonated bicarbonated spring waters with exceptional architecture and landscape design. The distinctive naturally sparkling mineral waters of Pedras Salgadas, bottled since the nineteenth century and known across Portugal, emerge in one of the country's most evocative thermal heritage landscapes, giving the contemporary spa an authenticity of spring source and architectural setting that few luxury spa developments can match.