Thermes de Spa

Thermes de Spa is a purpose-built modern bathing facility that opened in 2004, designed by architect Claude Strebelle, sitting atop the Colline d'Annette et Lubin roughly 80 meters above downtown Spa, with a funicular built specifically to connect the two. It draws on the same natural mineral water that supplies the town's famous historic Pouhon springs (including the Pouhon Pierre-le-Grand pump room), which is naturally cold, carbonated and iron-rich; it is heated for the facility's 800 m² of indoor and outdoor thermal pools, jacuzzis and traditional peat baths. This is a genuinely distinct visitor experience from the historic Pouhon pump rooms in town — a purpose-built contemporary spa building rather than a heritage drinking fountain — though both draw on the same UNESCO-recognized spring water that gave the word 'spa' to the world.