The Thermalia, Caldes de Montbui Museum encompasses several buildings and collections that summarise the basic historical features of the town: some Roman baths, a Romanesque chapel, a civil Gothic building and an 18th-century manor house. The buildings are grouped into three distinct sections.
\ \The main section, Thermalia, corresponds to a Gothic building from the late 14th century known as the Former Hospital of Santa Susanna, which became incorporated into the old Romanesque chapel of the same name, consecrated in 1403.
\ \The second section of the Caldes Museum is the Can Delger building, a romantic house-museum which the Delger family gave to the city council in 1959.
\ \The third section of the Museum and a National Cultural Heritage Asset are the Roman Baths. They are in the town’s most emblematic building and with a tradition dating back two thousand years symbolise the raison d’être of Caldes’s existence. The visitable area, part of a large complex of thermal and medicinal baths, is one Europe’s best preserved spa facilities from the classical era.
\ \The Thermalia Museum occupies a building that was once a hospital for the poor, named Santa Susana from the 11th century Romanesque chapel beside it.
Last update: 10/04/2024