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Beautiful panorama of Lake Annecy, the Aravis and Mont Blanc

Magnificent panorama of the valley at the foot of the Alps. We hear the cowbells in spring, the breeze is gentle, the shade of a tree welcomes us for a moment to enjoy a short break on the ascent of Salève. This view alone is worth the effort of climbing up there!

very gloomy place housing the ancient thermal baths of the pont de la quailles

Nice view of the Bornes plateau and the mountains in the background. With a little luck, we can see Mont Blanc.

Ancient thermal baths, a rather dark and gloomy place

The Caille baths are former thermal baths, now disused, located in the Usses gorges, in the town of Cruseilles in Haute-Savoie. Probably already known to the Romans1, they are fed by two sulfurous springs which spring at the bottom of the Usses valley, downstream from the Caille bridges. These baths have been used several times at least since the Middle Ages. They were actually developed from the middle of the 19th century but have not been exploited since the 1960s, their location nestled in the gorges, the moderate flow and temperature of the springs not having favored the sustainability of the establishment. The waters are sulphurous, alkaline, gaseous, hot at 24°Re or 30°C1. They are used in drinks, baths, showers and steam baths. They become cloudy as soon as they are exposed to air and then give off a very characteristic odor. They escape in two sources from the limestone bases of the so-called “Châtelard” mountain. Their flow rate of approximately one hundred liters of water per minute corresponds, for example, to the content of a bath per minute1. They are easily digested; also, patients can drink 8 to 12 glasses per day. They are used more particularly against diseases of the skin, joints, gout, rheumatism, scrofula, internal and external engorgement, vapors, migraines, etc. The operation of the baths stopped definitively around the 1960s. The buildings were then partly destroyed, and ruins remained, including the old swimming pool at the entrance to which we can still read the inscription “BENI BE GOD WHO MADE THE SPRINGS BRING OUT. ALONGSIDE THE EVILS, HE PUT THE REMEDY.”

A great view for a wooden bridge… infamous in the region but superb.

View of the two bridges. You can cross the Pont de la Caille on foot or by bike and this avoids the main road.