Acquarena

Acquarena is the indoor and outdoor bath of Brixen (Bressanone) in South Tyrol. It is run by Acquarena – Stadtwerke Brixen AG at Altenmarktgasse 28/b, I-39042 Brixen (BZ), the municipal utility company of the town. The operator claims no thermal or mineral origin for its water and publishes no analysis: this is a leisure and sports bath with treated water rather than a spa. One pool is an exception: the Solebecken, a brine pool, which the operator places under the open sky.

The indoor hall is open all year and the operator lists it as having a fun pool, a sports pool, a children's pool, a salt-water pool and a whirlpool. The operator details each pool separately: the Funbecken with a 64-metre spiral slide, current channel, neck showers and whirl loungers at 27–31 °C over 320 m² and 1.40 m deep; the Kinderbecken with slides, a waterfall and warm alcoves at 26–31 °C over 56 m² and 0.30 m deep; the Sportbecken with 8 lanes and a 1-metre springboard at 25–27 °C over 415 m², 0.90–4.00 m deep on a movable floor; the Solebecken in the open air with neck showers and whirl loungers at 27–33 °C over 164 m² and 1.30 m deep; and a whirlpool at 26–32 °C over 15 m².

The open-air lido adds a second set of pools in summer: a Funbecken with a 77-metre spiral slide, current channel, neck showers and whirl loungers at 22–27 °C over 590 m²; a children's pool with a slide, water games, spray jets and dammable channels at 22–27 °C and 0.30 m deep; and a sports pool with 8 lanes and diving towers at 1, 3 and 5 metres at 22–27 °C over 1,350 m², 1.80–3.80 m deep. The outdoor area covers 12,000 m² with a large lawn, an outdoor bar, a children's playground with a sand-and-mud zone and climbing course, and beach volleyball and beach soccer courts. The operator gives the outdoor season as June to early September, while the Brixen tourist office gives the end of May to early September; in the summer months the lido is open 9:00–19:30.

The sauna landscape comprises two Finnish outdoor saunas, a Finnish panorama sauna on the roof terrace, a Finnish indoor sauna, a steam bath, a bio pine sauna and a herbal sauna, plus an infrared cabin. Temperatures are 85–100 °C for the Finnish outdoor and panorama cabins, 75–85 °C for the Finnish indoor sauna, 40–50 °C at 95–100% humidity for the steam bath, 50–70 °C with colour-light therapy in the bio pine cabin, 60–65 °C at 40–45% humidity in the herbal sauna, and about 45 °C in the infrared cabin. Infusions last 10–12 minutes and are held in one of the Finnish cabins. All sauna cabins and sauna water areas are nude areas. A sun terrace with a whirlpool and a roof terrace with a panorama view over the surrounding hill country and the Plose complete the sauna area. Wellness and beauty treatments, a physiotherapy department (Monday to Friday 07:30–18:00, by appointment) and a gym are also on site.

Opening hours: the indoor bath daily 9:00–22:00 and the lido 9:00–19:30 in the summer months; the sauna Monday to Wednesday and Friday 13:00–22:00, Thursday 10:00–17:00 as a women's sauna and 17:00–22:00 mixed, and Saturday, Sunday, public holidays and high season 10:00–22:00; the gym daily 6:00–22:00, and 5:30–22:00 from 1 June to 31 August. On 24 and 31 December the whole facility closes at 18:00. The indoor pools close at 21:45, the lido pools at 19:30 and the sauna area at 21:45.