Winter was getting old. True, the weather in Germany has been unseasonably mild, but certainly not balmy. And then there’s the rain. I began daydreaming of warm beaches, but neither my ...

Thermal baths in Baden-Baden have made the southwest German city a popular wellness destination. Pictured, the glass-domed Caracalla Spa. Source: Courtesy of Baden-Baden Kur & Tourismus Late afternoon ...

“You will be naked.” The woman at the entrance to the “textile-free” Friedrichsbad Roman-Irish bath in Baden-Baden, Germany, mentioned this more than once. All you wear in this neo-Renaissance, ...

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You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Take to the baths while in Baden-Baden. You'll have to bare all at Friedrichsbad to enjoy the mosaic ...

FOR almost 140 years, people have discarded their clothes and their modesty in front of strangers here. Because total nudity is deemed mandatory. Mark Twain had it right when he said of Germany’s ...

Nothing quite matches a good old-fashioned spa town like Baden-Baden. And by old-fashioned, I mean really old-fashioned-or rather, "exceptionally storied." Roman soldiers garrisoned in what is now the ...

Cars race past us as we turn off the Autobahn motorway and onto a quieter street that leads into a long, tube-shaped tunnel. For more than two and a half kilometres we speed through Michaelstunnel, ...