Summer 
Healing hot water jets, up to 37° C warm, surge from the ground,
sometimes forming geysers up to 70 m high. The first guests were
lowered in baskets, there was soon a spa. These days this Baroque spa
"Alten Bad Pfäfers" offers a charming spa experience, as well as a
wonderful restaurant. There is also a permanent exhibit which covers
the then-leading surgeon, Paracelsus, the old spa, as well as life in
the old spa. The hike to the ravine where the spa is easy enough. The
hike thereafter, through the actual gorge, is highly impressive, with
parts of the gorge so close that the walls seem to touch.
Tamina Gorge is open from may to october every day 10a.m. to 6 p.m.
How to get there:
Drive or take public transportation to Bad Ragaz, from Bad Ragaz take the bus to "Altes Bad Pfäfers".
Tamina Gorge: Monastic Spa and Hell's Gateway
Bad Ragaz - Heidiland
Search Switzerland for
Adelboden: Choleren Gorge
Andeer: Roffla Gorge
Bad Ragaz: Tamina Gorge
Belalp: Massa Gorge
Blenio: Brenno Gorge
Couvet: Gorges de l'Areuse
Flims: Vorderrhein Gorge
Gotthard: Schöllenen Gorge
Kaltbrunnen Valley
La Sarraz
Leukerbad: Dalaschlucht
Leventina: Piottino Gorge
Martigny: Durnand Gorge
Meiringen: Aare River Gorge
Meiringen: Rosenlaui Gorge
Saas Fee: Gorge Alpine
Salvan: Dailley Gorge
Schwarzwasser
The Covatannaz Energy Trail
Thusis: Viamala Gorge
Vallorbe: Orbe ravine
Vernayaz: Trient Gorge
Wolfenschiessen: Gorge
Judging by the medieval descriptions of the Tamina Gorge, this place
near Bad Ragaz seemed more of a hellish kind of place as opposed to a
place where the sick would go to heal. And yet, thousands made the
pilgrimage here.
More links
Contact Information
- Altes Bad Pfäfers
7310 Bad Ragaz
Tel. +41 (0)81 302 71 61
Fax +41 (0)81 302 41 61 - www.altes-bad-pfaefers.ch