Baden

Baden, a town and fashionable watering-place in the Swiss canton of Aargau, on the left bank of the Limmat, 14 miles NW. of Zurich by rail. It has a population of 3900, and its sulphur-baths, which were known to the Romans as Thermæ Helvetice, yearly attract some 20,000 visitors. Their temperature is as high as 117° F. Baden, from the 15th to the beginning of the 18th century, was the seat of the Swiss diet.