Thermal Destination
Aidipsos
Aidipsos · Greece
On the green island of Euboea, where mineral water cascades over rust-red rocks straight into the Aegean, Aidipsos has drawn the powerful and the ailing to its steaming springs for more than two thousand years — a healing resort already famous in the age of Rome.
A healing resort of the ancient world
Praised by Aristotle, Strabo and Plutarch, the hot springs of Aedepsus were among the most celebrated of the ancient Mediterranean. The Roman general Sulla came here in the 1st century BC to ease a chronic ailment, and a long line of emperors — Hadrian and Marcus Aurelius among them — are recorded among the resort’s distinguished visitors. The Roman-era baths cut into the rock survive to this day in the cave that still bears Sulla’s name.
Where hot springs meet the sea
Some eighty thermal springs surface around Aidipsos — the densest concentration of hot water in all of Greece — pouring from the earth at up to 82 °C and tumbling over orange-stained rocks into natural seaside pools.
Bathers soak in steaming mineral water beside the cool Aegean, an experience at its most atmospheric on crisp winter mornings when the sea itself seems to breathe steam.
Roman Aedepsus
In the footsteps of Sulla and the emperors
Behind the modern hydrotherapy centre, the rock-cut baths of “Sulla’s Cave” still channel hot mineral water as they did when Rome’s generals took the cure — a direct, living link to the resort’s two-thousand-year past.
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