As some swimming pools prepare to reopen, we dip our toes into the most dramatic ones across the globe – from remote Aussie rock pools to Cleopatra’s favourite bathing spot
De Tongelreep swimming pool in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, where you can participate in the not particularly enjoyable sounding ‘water boot camp’
Photograph: Paul Raats/EPA
The Tinside Lido at Plymouth Harbour. The lido was built in 1935, then closed in 1992. After a local campaign, it reopened at a cost of £3.4m in 2005
Photograph: Matthew Horwood/Getty Images
A tourist swims in water from hot springs at Cleopatra’s Pool in the ruins of the ancient city of Hierapolis, Pamukkale, Turkey. Yes, Cleopatra actually bathed here
Photograph: Cem Öksüz/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
The empty art deco Amalienbad public swimming pool in Vienna, Austria. It was built in the 1920s, and was the largest bathhouse in central Europe at the time
Photograph: Lisi Niesner/Reuters
A swimmer in the pool located on the 24th floor of the Holiday Inn hotel, Shanghai, China. Part of the swimming pool extends over the side of the building. The bottom of this extension is transparent, giving a stomach-churning view of the ground far below
Photograph: Quirky China/Rex/Shutterstock
People swimming in a natural hot spring, the Secret Lagoon, Fludir, Iceland
Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo
People gather on landing stages and in the swimming pool on the river Spree in Berlin
Photograph: Oliver Lang/AP
A remote rock pool off Mona Vale beach on the Pacific ocean coast, Sydney
Photograph: Taras Vyshnya/Alamy
A young boy is silhouetted while swimming in a glass-bottomed pool 60 metres (197 feet) above street level, at a condo tower in Vancouver, British Columbia
Photograph: Darryl Dyck/AP
Outdoor swimming pools at the closed AquaSplash! swimming pool, in Renens, Switzerland
Photograph: Laurent Gilliéron/EPA
People cool off at a swimming pool in Fuyang, Anhui Province, China, in 2016
Photograph: China Stringer Network/Reuters
Tourists enjoy a swimming pool at a hotel in Bangkok, Thailand
Photograph: Jorge Silva/Reuters
Diving boards stand over the deep end of the main pool at the Kiebitzberge public swimming pools near Berlin
Photograph: Sean Gallup/Getty Images
Empty outdoor pools of the Szechenyi thermal bath in Budapest, Hungary. It is Europe’s largest medicinal bath, with water supplied by two thermal springs. Its temperature averages about 75C
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