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Tamina Gorge Illuminations

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Tamina Gorge Illuminations

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Location: Pfäfers, Sarganserland, St. Gallen, Eastern Switzerland, Switzerland

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1. Tamina Gorge – Tamina Gorge Thermal Spring loop from Bad Ragaz

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2. Tamina Gorge – Tamina Gorge Thermal Spring loop from Pfäfers

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3. Tamina Gorge Thermal Spring – Tamina Gorge Illuminations loop from Pfäfers

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Expert hike. Good fitness required. Sure-footedness, sturdy shoes and alpine experience required.

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Paul

June 23, 2025

Tamina Gorge - 36.5°C, 8,000 liters per minute.
Two hunters from the nearby Pfäfers Monastery discovered the healing Tamina spring in 1240. Therefore, the healing properties of Pfäfers' spring water were recognized early on. Initially, the sick bathed in rock depressions, and from 1350 onwards, in wooden bathhouses across the roaring Tamina. Access to the gorge was difficult: those who could climbed ladders. The rest abseiled into the gorge in baskets – blindfolded to combat their fear.
Today, the Tamina Gorge can be explored much more comfortably. From Bad Ragaz, a leisurely one-hour hike leads to the Old Baths of Pfäfers. Halfway through, you pass under the largest arched bridge in Switzerland, the Tamina Bridge. Those who don't want to walk can take the post bus or the Rösslipost (horse-drawn carriage). The entrance to the mystical gorge is located just behind the historic building. A tunnel secures the 450-meter-long path through the rock to the spring water grotto. Here, the Tamina spring bubbles continuously from the rock, day and night, at a temperature of 36.5°C, and 8,000 liters per minute.
Text / Source: Switzerland Tourism
myswitzerland.com/de-ch/erlebnisse/tamina-schlucht-und-altes-bad-pfaefers

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Paul

June 23, 2025

Tamina Gorge near Old Bad Pfäfers - 36.5°C, 8,000 liters per minute.
Source of our thermal water
The Tamina spring is not only the namesake of our thermal spa, but also the source of our healing spring water. Europe's most abundant thermal spring rises in the Tamina Gorge near Bad Ragaz and was discovered in the early Middle Ages (in 1242).
Mysterious Tamina Gorge
In the Tamina Gorge between Valens and the hamlet of Bonadivis, the water of the Tamina River carves its way up to 200 meters into the earth. The narrow rock crevice of the Tamina Gorge is approximately 750 meters long and 70 meters deep. Near Old Bad Pfäfers, the gorge widens, and a road now connects Old Bad Pfäfers with the town of Bad Ragaz.
Deep within the mystical Tamina Gorge beats its heart: the inexhaustible spring from which healing, body-temperature thermal water has bubbled for centuries.

Among others, the physician and alchemist Paracelsus praised the healing properties of the spring water in the 16th century, which is considered an acratotherm due to its low mineral content and temperature of 36.5°C.

Text / Source: TAMINA THERME AG, Hans Albrecht-Strasse, Bad Ragaz
taminatherme.ch/thermalwasserwelt/taminaschlucht-thermalwasser

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Christian K. & Miriam

April 20, 2023

The lighting creates an interesting atmosphere.

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Location: Pfäfers, Sarganserland, St. Gallen, Eastern Switzerland, Switzerland

Tamina Gorge Illuminations

1. Tamina Gorge – Tamina Gorge Thermal Spring loop from Bad Ragaz

2. Tamina Gorge – Tamina Gorge Thermal Spring loop from Pfäfers

3. Tamina Gorge Thermal Spring – Tamina Gorge Illuminations loop from Pfäfers

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