Korbous: The coastal town with hot springs 59 °

Korbous: The coastal town with hot springs 59 °

The main source of hot water that gushes from a rock to rush into the sea will impress you. Korbous is a charming village by the sea, in the Cap Bon region.
Known since antiquity as a high-quality spa, its chlorinated and sulfurized hot springs are beneficial for treating many bone and skin diseases.
Its seven sources make the station a large health center known throughout the Maghreb.

Itinerary

Swimming in one of the hot springs of Korbous, Aïn Echfa the natural thermal spa Built on the mountainside along a single street, the place is already frequented by boat by the Romans of Carthage; these call it Aquae Calideae Carpitanae (Carpis Waters), a small neighboring city, because of the hot springs gushing at over 50 ° C, as evidenced by the many Roman remains and an inscription now exposed at the National Bardo Museum. Fallen into oblivion, the site is only frequented by a local population after the Arab conquest. But, in the 19th century, Ahmed I Bey gave it a new lease of life by having a pavilion built there today occupied by the Tunisian Thermal Spa Office privatized in 1997.
Hot sodium chloride water and cold calcium sulfide water treat rheumatism, arthritis and certain disorders of the nervous system.
Geological concepts
The sources come out along a fault at the edge of the sea from North-South direction affecting the dome of Korbous, this accident caused the western half of this dome to collapse and it is at the western foot of the eastern part that the thermal waters.