The Roman baths of Campo Valdés in Gijón are free: entry costs nothing all year. They open Tuesday to Friday from 9.30 to 14.00 and from 17.00 to 19.30, and on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays from 10.00 to 14.00 and from 17.00 to 19.30. They close every Monday. Guided tours are for groups, booked in advance.
The Roman baths of Campo Valdés don’t charge for entry: they are free every day they open, which is Tuesday to Sunday. Here is the practical side of going down to see them (opening hours, closures, guided tours and what is inside), checked in October 2026 against the official page of the Gijón Archaeological Museums.
Opening hours
Tuesday to Friday they open from 9.30 to 14.00 and from 17.00 to 19.30. On Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays, from 10.00 to 14.00 and from 17.00 to 19.30. The council page gives the same hours for the whole year, with no separate winter and summer timetable.
They close every Monday of the year, plus 1 and 6 January, Carnival Tuesday, 15 August and 24, 25 and 31 December. Between 14.00 and 17.00 you can’t get in either, worth bearing in mind if you want to pair the visit with lunch in Cimadevilla.
Watch out this autumn: the page warns that the museum will be closed from 27 to 31 October for maintenance.
Price: free, always
Entry is free. There are no free days because there are no paying days: both the council page and the museum’s official leaflet say so, the leaflet in capital letters right next to the opening hours.
That is the usual pattern for Gijón’s municipal museums. The Muséu del Pueblu d'Asturies, for instance, is also free according to its page.
Guided tours
Guided tours are for groups and must be booked in advance on 985 185 151. Between 1 June and 30 September, groups of more than 15 people are only taken, by booking, from 10.00 to 11.30.
If you go on your own you are not left guessing: in front of each room there are screens recreating what it looked like inside, and the walkway follows the same route the bathers took. The Archaeological Museums also run theatrical tours, talks and workshops, listed in the council events calendar.
What you see inside
The visit has two parts. First, an information area with a film, scale models, texts and drawings explaining what baths were for in the Roman world and how the ones in Gijón worked. Then a corridor with a long display case of what came out of the excavations: bricks, pottery, glass, animal bones that have shown what people ate, and even a fragment of a doll. A model of the hypocaust, the underfloor heating, helps you make sense of what comes next.
Then the real remains begin. From the walkway you see the little brick columns of the sweating room and, after climbing a staircase, the entrance hall, the cold room with its pool, the warm room and the hot room. Turning left from the hot room there are rooms whose lower walls still keep traces of paint.
At the end of the corridor is a rectangular room with a very complete hypocaust of small columns and remains of the hollow bricks that heated the walls. And at the far end, something nobody expects in a bath house: a stone sarcophagus and a slab-lined grave, from the cemetery that occupied this site in medieval times.
The paintings now have a second life: according to the museum’s page, a doctoral thesis at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia has taken up their study again.
Before you go down
You can’t go in with umbrellas, rucksacks, briefcases or bags larger than 40 centimetres; there is a cloakroom. Photos and video are fine for personal use, but without flash, tripod or selfie stick. Only guide dogs are allowed.
The museum, opened in 1995, is on the Campo Valdés square, served by bus lines L4, L10, L14, L20 and L25. No official source says how long the visit takes, so we don’t give a figure.
The story of who bathed here, and the walk uphill to the Elogio del Horizonte, are in our guide to the Roman baths and the Elogio del Horizonte.
Checked
Opening hours, closures, free entry, group bookings, route and rules checked in October 2026 on the Museo Termas Romanas de Campo Valdés page of Gijón City Council, its visitor leaflet and its visitor rules. Free entry at the Muséu del Pueblu d'Asturies, on its council page.
Quick questions
How much does it cost to visit Gijón’s Roman baths?
Nothing. Entry is free every day the museum opens.
Which days are the Campo Valdés Roman baths closed?
Every Monday of the year, plus 1 and 6 January, Carnival Tuesday, 15 August and 24, 25 and 31 December.
Are there guided tours of Gijón’s Roman baths?
Yes, for groups booked in advance by phone. Between 1 June and 30 September, groups of more than 15 people go in from 10.00 to 11.30.
What do you see inside the baths?
An area with a film and scale models, a display case of finds from the excavations and, from a walkway, the cold room, the warm room, the hot room, the sweating room and a very complete hypocaust.