Caldas da Saúde Vila Nova
- Location
- Vila Nova de Famalicao, Braga District, Portugal
- Water type
- bicarbonate
- Temperature
- 38 °C
- pH
- 8
Water profile
Soothing — neither hot nor cold, perfect balance.
Loaded with major ions — the essential minerals (Ca, Mg).
Soft water — natural, classic buoyancy.
Caldas da Saúde Vila Nova is a thermal spa in Vila Nova de Famalicão, Braga District, in the industrially and culturally dynamic Minho region of northwestern Portugal, where sulfurous springs in the rolling green landscape have served the local community amid one of the country's most densely populated and economically active zones. The sulfurous mineral waters here offer traditional balneotherapy and relaxing thermal bathing, maintaining the Portuguese termas culture of hydrotherapy in a region where textile manufacturing and traditional northern Portuguese culture coexist. This spa represents the accessible, community-oriented dimension of Portuguese balneology, where thermal bathing remains integrated into local social life in the busy industrial heartland of the Minho.