Overview

• On July 15, Mayor Gonzalo Pérez Jácome and Councillor Noa Rouco filmed a viral swim in Termas do Muíño da Veiga to challenge a Xunta de Galicia prohibition on public bathing.
• The regional government advises against bathing because the waters lack official mineral-medicinal status and fail to meet thermal water management regulations.
• The Concello de Ourense maintains that its periodic water-quality tests confirm the safety of the termas and labels the dispute as an administrative obstacle rather than a health hazard.
• Jácome invoked Manuel Fraga Iribarne’s 1966 Palomares swim to draw parallels between historical and contemporary demonstrations of water safety.
• The termas remain in legal limbo pending a lengthy classification process, underscoring ongoing tensions between local autonomy and regional health oversight.