In which country is the spa town of Bad Reichenhall?

Bad Reichenhall is a spa town, and administrative center of the Berchtesgadener Land district in Upper Bavaria, Germany. It is located near Salzburg in a basin encircled by the Chiemgau Alps.

The earliest known inhabitants of this area are the tribes of the Glockenbecher-Culture (a Bronze Age Culture, from about 2000 B.C.).

In the age of the La Tene culture (about 450 B.C.) organised salt production, It is still a traditional center of salt production, obtained by evaporating water saturated with salt from brine ponds.

If salt made Bad Reichenhall rich for centuries, now tourism, slow mobility and sustainability do it. Bad Reichenhall is one of the Alpine Pearls and is emerging as excellence of sustainable tourism in the Alps for its soft mobility choices.

Bad Reichenhall has a long therapeutic tradition: the benefits of salt will amaze you. The Alpensole saline sources will indeed be a blessing for your mental and physical health. It was the King of Bavaria Ludwig to want to transform the village in a thermal destination: since then emperors, nobles and wealthy men began to visit this typical village in Germany.