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 ...
One can just about picture Caracalla-the wiry-haired, big-boned, Roman emperor- soaking naked in a large pool at the Friedrichsbad bathhouse in Baden-Baden, when he suddenly makes a thundering ...
(openPR) Weißer Marmorfußboden, glänzende Armaturen, Säulen und Kuppeldecken. Darunter sprudelt Thermalwasser aus zwölf Quellen. Auf einem Rundgang mit 17 Stationen erwartet den Besucher im ...
Im Friedrichsbad in Baden-Baden durfte man bisher nur nackt baden. Doch jetzt heißt es an zwei Tagen in der Woche: "Pack die Badehose ein!" Die Gäste sind geteilter Meinung. Es ist so etwas wie eine ...
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 ...
“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, ...
Relaxing at the spa resort of Baden-Baden in southern Germany’s Black Forest, I see more naked people in two hours than many Americans see in their entire lives. Ever since the Roman emperor Caracalla ...