{"id":13564,"date":"2020-04-22T17:06:37","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T17:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gocaldas.com\/as-termas-de-caldas-da-rainha\/"},"modified":"2021-03-09T15:51:42","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T15:51:42","slug":"hot-springs-in-caldas-da-rainha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gocaldas.com\/en\/hot-springs-in-caldas-da-rainha\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot Springs in Caldas da Rainha"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hot Springs in Caldas da Rainha, a Treasure to discover<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Everything seems to have started in the year 1484, when Queen D. Leonor passed through that place they called Caldas de \u00d3bidos, en route to Batalha<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A year later, the Thermal Hospital and what would become the thermal spa of Caldas da Rainha opened to public!<\/p>\n

The story tells that Queen Dona Leonor saw a group of people bathing in swampy waters, with a very characteristic smell (sulfur). To the question of why they were bathing there, people answered that those waters served to cure various disease.<\/p>\n

History of the Hot Springs in Caldas da Rainha says that the Queen suffered from a disease and that when she bathed in those waters, the disease stopped tormenting her, leading her to create what is considered the oldest Thermal Hospital in the world!<\/p>\n

After the construction of the Thermal Hospital in 1485, King D. Jo\u00e3o V already in the XVIII century ordered the original structures to be demolished and decided to have a new building built. Why? Because King D. Jo\u00e3o V suffered from several diseases and his majesty’s advisers told him that the waters of Caldas da Rainha were the most recommended for the cure of convulsions, head complaints and even the paralysis that affected the King.<\/p>\n

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The King ended up coming to the hot springs in Caldas da Rainha 13 times, and there are no records that the treatments he did with the waters brought him any added value.<\/p>\n

In the XIX Century Rodrigo Berqu\u00f3, one of the great administrators of the Termal Hospital ended up increasing one more floor to the Termal Hospital and started to design what today are the Park Pavillions, a struture mented to be a new hospital but never become one.<\/p>\n

That same building was used for secondary school, army headquarters, police and library, but today those who are the famous “Pavil\u00f5es do Parque” (so called by the Park Pavillions) are closed to the public and will be transformed into a 5-star hotel.<\/p>\n

The Thermal Hospital, the Nossa Senhora do Populo Church, the Hospital and Caldas Museum (former Caza Real), Parque D. Carlos I, Mata Rainha Dona Leonor) and the new spa (former convalescence house) are part of the thermal complex. ).<\/p>\n

Therapeutic Treatments Associated with the Hot Springs<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Here you can find some details about the thermal waters of Caldas da Rainha<\/a> and a list of treatments that were carried out before the Thermal Hospital closed:<\/p>\n