A family area with Finnish sauna, Turkish bath, ice-cold bath and relaxation area.
The Family Wellness path is a family area with Finnish sauna, Turkish bath, ice-cold bath and relaxation area.
After a sauna or a Turkish bath treat yourself with a cold shower and a quick dip in the spring water pool, the forerunner of a few minutes stretched out on one of the loungers in the relaxation room, wrapped up in your towel and pampered by a heavy pure-wool blanket.
You can then return to the sauna or Turkish bath, safe in the knowledge that you should not repeat the operation more than two or three times, for sauna visitors, and once or twice for the Turkish bath.
Bormio Terme’s Turkish bath, built entirely in serpentine stone, remains the natural realm for vaporous water; with a temperature of around 45° alongside a relative humidity of 100%.
The temperature within, however, is not uniform, varying from 30°C in the lower section, to 40°C at waist height, reaching nearly 50°C at head height.
Unlike the sauna, inside the Turkish bath, a thick blanket of fog prevents the visitor from seeing outside.
The Finnish sauna at Bormio Terme, constructed in traditional wood, typically boasts a temperature between 85 and 100 degrees centigrade, alongside a relative humidity of between 10% and 30%.
Despite such high levels of heat, thanks to perspiration the skin never exceeds a temperature of 42° (the pain threshold measures 46°) and the internal body temperature increases by a maximum of 1°C.
The recommended dwell time is of about 10 and 15 minutes, moving from the lower benches to the highest ones. Shift gently from a lying position to a seated one and any moving about should be done at a leisurely pace. We recommend a shower and a dip in cold natural spring water at the end of the sauna.