There was a similar set-up in Bad Gastein itself at the Felsentherme thermal baths near the railway station.

Every day, upwards of 1.3 million gallons of fresh thermal water, fortified over millennia with low-levels of radon, gushes out of the Hohe Tauern Mountains and pools below in Bad Gastein. Those ...

More municipal than luxury, it’s the favored stomping grounds for locals. Mineral-rich thermal water from 18 springs at the base of Bad Gastein pour into the baths.

For centuries, locals have been taking the waters of Bad Gastein—here's why you should too Deep in Austria’s Hohe Tauern Alps, the spa town of Bad Gastein has long been eulogised for the ...

The thermal baths are obviously a given as well - try these at either Felsentherme Hot Springs opposite the train station (where you can enjoy a rooftop sauna looking over the snow-capped ...

Known for its healing hot springs, this picturesque village in the Austrian Alps draws thousands of travelers every year who come to soak up its thermal waters.

Where? Bad Gastein is a historic spa town set within a glacial valley an hour-and-a-half south of Salzburg. The Gastein Valley includes the resorts of Bad Gastein, Bad Hofgastein, Dorfgastein and ...

In the nineteenth century names like Baden Baden, Wiesbaden, Marienbad, and Bad Gastein were famous throughout Europe for the high-society figures and royalty that frequented them.

The appeal of the waters of Bad Gastein is that they contain low levels of radon, a radioactive element that, while dangerous when inhaled, is also used — in small, supervised doses — to treat ...

However, Gastein's secret weapon in the Bad wars is the gas that you can pay to breathe in its caves, advertised unapologetically on the Web as a cure for everything from "sclerodermatitis" and ...