{"id":3058,"date":"2018-06-06T11:54:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T10:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samsonandsuzi.com\/2018\/06\/06\/hot-tub-city-of-ourense\/"},"modified":"2021-06-17T21:50:30","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T20:50:30","slug":"hot-tub-city-of-ourense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samsonandsuzi.com\/?p=3058","title":{"rendered":"Hot Tub City of Ourense"},"content":{"rendered":"

We took an overnight stop in the City of Ourense, home to half a dozen natural thermal springs, first “claimed as medicinal” by the Romans, who named the city Auria.<\/span><\/p>\n

The city stands on a hillside, made up of a large modern shopping and a University, the medieval centre with its Cathedral and its old Roman bridge and then its all surrounded by large hotels, small restaurants and tavernas, all neatly fitted together. If you looked at some of buildings in the Plazas, surrounded by enclosed balconies, you could be forgiven for thinking you were in York!
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The main tourist attractions are the hot springs<\/a>, as Ourense holds one of the greatest amount of geothermal water in Europe. There are several places called pozas, with or without entrance fee (only \u00805 each to include showers, shower gel and privacy from the public) where you can have a bath outdoors. One of them is located inside the old town as per the ancient Roman tradition, as ruins of a Roman bath were discovered and are now open to visitors. There are several more hot springs located along the river Mi\u00f1o where baths are at different temperatures, ranging from 35 – 70 degrees Celsius. We spent one day in the city and the next at the spas!
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13th Century Romanesque & Gothic Cathedral & The City<\/span><\/h3>\n

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This is the Burgas Spring, where the water comes out at 65C!! It was steaming when David decided to put his hand in it!!<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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The Burgas spring comes out into a pool in the City, this is open from 7am to 1am each day! And it’s free!!<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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Confirmation of the Burgas Spring info.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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Outdoor Springs, free and open to everyone!<\/span><\/h3>\n

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We went here but paid the \u00805 to be away from the prying eyes, had a float in mineral rich green water for a few hours, came away feeling so relaxed and our skin was soft as a baby’s bottom for days!! We could not take many photos as it seemed an invasion of people’s privacy!
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Breakfast Options!!<\/span><\/h3>\n

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We took an overnight stop in the City of Ourense, home to half a dozen natural thermal springs, first “claimed as medicinal” by the Romans, who named the city Auria. The city stands on a hillside, made up of a large modern shopping and a University, the medieval centre with its Cathedral and its old […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-spain","post-preview"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samsonandsuzi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samsonandsuzi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samsonandsuzi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samsonandsuzi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samsonandsuzi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.samsonandsuzi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3999,"href":"https:\/\/www.samsonandsuzi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058\/revisions\/3999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samsonandsuzi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samsonandsuzi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samsonandsuzi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}