Tourist attraction
Mineralbad & Spa Rigi Kaltbad
Mineral bath sunk beneath a mountain village square, fed by a centuries-old healing spring.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Mineralbad and Spa Rigi Kaltbad, above Lake Lucerne, follows the mineral spring back to around fifteen forty, when a Weggis villager named Barthli Joler climbed out of the icy water convinced it had cured him. From there it traces how that story turned a mountain ledge into a pilgrimage site visited by the likes of Goethe and Mark Twain, and how architect Mario Botta later rebuilt the bathhouse after decades of ruin. Look up at the crystal-shaped skylights overhead while you float in the same water Barthli Joler once climbed up for.
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