Aquatics Center (Civ6)

Aquatics Center
Building of the Atomic Era
Introduced in Rise and Fall
Unlocked by	Professional Sports
Cost
Production	480 660
Production	480 660
Maint.	3
Maint.	3
Requires
District	Water Park
Infrastructure	Aquarium
Effects
+2 Amenities from entertainment. This bonus extends to each City Center within 9 tiles. This bonus applies once to a city, and multiple copies of this building within 9 tiles of a City Center do not provide additional bonuses. +2 Tourism for each Wonder built in this city on or adjacent to a Coast tile.

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The Aquatics Center is an advanced entertainment building in Civilization VI: Rise and Fall. It is built in the Water Park district and requires an Aquarium (or one of its replacements).

Vanilla and Rise and Fall

• Effects:
  • +2 Amenities from entertainment to every City Center within 9 tiles.
  • +2 Tourism for each Wonder built in this city on or adjacent to a Coast tile.

Gathering Storm

• Effects:
  • +1 Amenity from entertainment to every City Center within 9 tiles.
  • +2 Amenities from entertainment additionally when Powered.
  • +2 Tourism for each Wonder built in this city on or adjacent to a Coast tile.
  • Base Load: 2 Power.

Strategy

The Aquatics Center is the only building in the Water Park that requires additional research to build, and provides an impressive +2 Amenities to all cities within nine tiles of its district and +2 Tourism from all wonders on or adjacent to the coast. Building it in a city that's been used as a "wonder factory" will turn it into a tourist hotspot.

Similar to the area effects of Stadiums and Factories, multiple copies of this building within 9 tiles of a City Center will not stack their bonuses.

Civilopedia entry

There's something to be said about the communal experience of enjoying the pleasure of water activities without the dangers of wild sea and lake creatures interrupting the fun.

Pools and aquatic centers have been a feature of cities for some time; take Pakistan's 'Great Bath,' one of the earliest known pools. Built sometime in 3000 BCE, it was likely a piece of religious construction (as indicated by the lack of slides and diving boards).

Contrast that modest 11.88 x 7.01 meter construction with the massive, 40 meter deep Y-40 pool in Italy (opened in 2014) and you can see the breadth and depth of the swimming experience.