THE SEA BATHS HISTORY IN EUROPE

From Medical Therapy to People’s Leisure

Pedro O’Neill Teixeira

Let’s Open Tourism for Us Workshop SÈTE 2011

I The Benefits of Sea Water

“O grande benefício, que tem recebido toda esta dilatada Ilha do uso da água do mar, …”Jacob de Castro Sarmento, 1753

Pedro O’Neill Teixeira

Let’s Open Tourism for Us Workshop SÈTE 2011

Dr. Richard Russell Treatise, 1750

Dr. Jacob de Castro Samento Treatise, 1753

Scarborough’s bathing machines, c. 1770

Bathing machine

Brighton’s bathing machines

Bathing woman or “dipper” in Brighton

Existing since the 1790’s, the “Barcas de Banhos” at Lisbon, Portugal (1826)

Bathing fashion, c. 1815

II The Sea Bathing Season

“Some people come here for health reasons and other for pleasure, which resulted in a charming society and brilliant fetes…”Améric Gautien, 1839

Pedro O’Neill Teixeira

Let’s Open Tourism for Us Workshop SÈTE 2011

Bathing lady in Brighton c. 1850, with bathing machines and a voyeur

The beach society at Ramsgate, 1854

The beach sociey at Trouville, painted by Eugène Boudin, 1867

Travemunde’s bathing machines, Germany, 1822

“Barcas de Banhos” in 1840’s Lisbon. They survived until the 1870’s.

Bathing complex at Viareggio, Italy, 1828

Bathing complex, Rimini, c. 1875

San Sebastian seaside resort, Spain

Sea Baths at Sète

III Leisure for the People

“Il lui fallait maintenant s'enfoncer dans la mer chaude, se perdre pour se retrouver, nager dans la lune et la tiédeur pour que se taise ce qui en lui restait du passé et que naisse le chant profond de son bonheur “Albert Camus, La Mort Heureuse 1936-1938

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Family beach vacations at Tréport, France, 1912

Sopot, Poland, 1920s

“Midday”, Alexander Deineka, Soviet Union, 1932

Estoril seaside resort, Portugal, 1930

Mamaia, Romania, 1930s

“Congés Payés”, France, 1936

“On the Beach”, Pablo Picasso, 1937

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