Bad Faulenbach
Sulphur-spring spa valley with Kneipp pools and a chain of lakes, two of them flooded gypsum quarries.
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This guide to Bad Faulenbach, the spa valley on the edge of Füssen, starts with a date that the valley's own records cannot agree on. It follows the Benedictine monks of Saint Mang, a sulphur bathhouse, and the centuries of gypsum digging in these hillsides, and asks how a place named after a smell ended up selling health. Best heard on the path between the Mittersee and the Obersee.
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