Baden, Switzerland

Baden, whose name means baths, is a town of about 22,600 inhabitants and the main town of the district of Baden in the canton of Aargau, Switzerland. It is sometimes called Baden bei Zürich or Baden im Aargau to tell it from other places of the name. It lies 25 kilometres northwest of Zürich in the Limmat valley, mainly on the left bank of the river, and its mineral hot springs have been famed since at least the Roman era. About twenty hot sulfur springs lie north of the downtown, with temperatures from 37 to 52 degrees Celsius. The town is divided into the districts of Kappelerhof, Allmend, Meierhof and Chrüzliberg, it absorbed the adjacent village of Dättwil in 1962, and on the right bank of the river lies Ennetbaden, formerly Little Baden. The municipality covers about 13.2 square kilometres, over half of it forest.