Thermalstrandbad Baden

Thermalstrandbad Baden is the celebrated thermal beach bath of Baden bei Wien, the historic spa town on the southern edge of the Vienna Woods whose sulfurous mineral waters have been used since Roman times and whose nineteenth-century development as an aristocratic resort gave rise to some of the most elegant spa architecture in Central Europe, earning the town the title 'the stage of Europe' for the extraordinary concentration of theatrical, musical, and artistic talent it attracted during the Biedermeier and Romantic periods. The thermal beach bath provides open-air mineral water bathing in the long tradition of Baden's sulfurous springs — classified among Austria's most therapeutically valuable for their effects on rheumatic conditions and skin disease — allowing guests to soak in naturally heated sulfurous water while surrounded by the wooded hills of the Vienna Woods in a setting of leisurely Central European resort elegance. Baden's exceptional proximity to Vienna — barely 25 kilometers south of the imperial capital — makes the Thermalstrandbad a beloved day-trip destination for Viennese seeking the restorative pleasure of thermal mineral bathing in what Beethoven, Schubert, and Mozart made one of the most musically and culturally distinguished small towns in the world.