Termas de Luso Buçaco

Termas de Luso is located in Luso in the municipality of Mealhada in the Coimbra District of central Portugal, one of Portugal's best-known thermal destinations, where bicarbonate mineral springs from the Serra do Buçaco forested mountains have been bottled and consumed for over a century as 'Água de Luso'—today Portugal's most widely consumed natural mineral water—and channelled into thermal facilities established in the 19th century. The bicarbonate-rich mineral composition of Luso's mineral springs is part of a long thermal tradition in Portugal, where drinking cures have made Luso's water a national institution. Luso is situated at the foot of the Buçaco Forest—one of Portugal's most extraordinary natural and historical sites, an ancient Carmelite monastery forest planted with centuries of exotic tree species, the site of Wellington's 1810 battle victory over Napoleon's forces, and the location of the Palace Hotel Buçaco, a neo-Manueline fantasy built for Portuguese royalty that is one of the most extraordinary Belle Époque hotels in Europe.