Wellness

Abano Terme (known as Abano Bagni until 1930) is a town and comune in the province of Padua, in the Veneto region, Italy, on the eastern slope of the Colli Euganei; it is 10 kilometers southwest by rail from Padua. Abano Terme's population is 19,062 (2001) (in 1901 it was only 4,556).The town's hot springs and mud baths are the main economical resource...

Acquasanta Terme is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Ascoli Piceno in the Italian region Marche, located about 90 km south of Ancona and about 15 km southwest of Ascoli Piceno. It is located in the Gran Sasso e Monti della Laga National Park. Main sights the medieval castle Castel di Luco (14th century), characterized by an unusual elliptical...

Acquasparta is a town and comune in the province of Terni (Umbria, central Italy). It is located on a hill above the Naia Valley and the river of the same name, facing the Monti Martani mountain range. It also sits between two hot springs, the Amerino and the Furipane. The name's origin is traditionally connected to the Roman toponym of Aquas Partas...

These hot springs discovered by the Greeks have very ancient origin, and they became very popular in Roman times when it was built a majestic aqueduct which brings water from the river Bormida to mitigate the high temperature of thermal waters. For many centuries, with ups and downs, Acqui has managed to preserve its thermal activity even in times of...

Agliano Terme is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Asti in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 50 km southeast of Turin and about 12 km southeast of Asti. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 1,658 and an area of 15.4 km². Agliano Terme spas are famous for its waters, rich in minerals. The spas,  built at the...

The sulphurous waters from the thermal spring in Arta were already known and appreciated by the Romans. This spa were also appreciated by the poet Giosuè Carducci: he was, in fact, enraptured by the beauties of both Arta and the Carnic region.From the beginning of 1900 aristocrats from Friuli and Veneto came to Arta, attracted by the rare...

Assisi is a town and comune of Italy in province of Perugia, in the Umbria region and on the western flank of Monte Subasio.It was the birthplace of St. Francis, who founded the Franciscan religious order in the town in 1208, and St. Clare (Chiara d'Offreducci), the founder of the Poor Clares. Saint Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows of the 19th century was...

Bagno di Romagna is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Forlì-Cesena in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about 90 km southeast of Bologna and about 45 km south of Forlì.The Medici coat of arms of the façade of the Palazzo dei Capitani.Bagno di Romagna borders the following municipalities: Bibbiena, Chiusi della Verna...

Battaglia Terme is a town and comune in the Veneto region of Italy, in the province of Padua. Battaglia lies at the easternmost edge of the volcanic Euganean Hills, and has been noted for its warm saline springs and natural vapour grotto since the Middle Ages. The construction of the navigable Battaglia canal in the early 13th century brought traffic and...

Boario  is famous in Italy and in Europe for the effectiveness of its spa and mineral waters. Boario has been well-known since the 16th century as a tourist and health resort, and it was famous beyond regional and national borders as early as the middle of the 19th century. Boario spa-waters pour out from four different springs and are...

Bognanco Valley is rich in vegetation and offers several springs of pure water. The main village in the valley, also called Bognanco, is well known for the fame to these waters, the curative properties of which were discovered in 1863. The Bognanco Spa Centre dates from this time, and was built in the Parco delle Sorgenti (Park of the Springs) amid...

Lake Bolsena (Italian: Lago di Bolsena) is a crater lake of central Italy, of volcanic origin, which was formed starting 370,000 years ago following the collapse of a caldera of the Vulsini volcanic complex into a deep aquifer. Roman historic records indicate activity of the Vulsini volcano occurred as recently as 104 BC, since when it has been dormant. The...

Caramanico Terme, inside the Maiella National Park at an altitude of 600 meters, is charaterized by a salubrious climate and offers threatments based on sulphurous mineral waters and medio-mineral waters.

Casciana Terme is a town of 3696 inhabitants in the province of Pisa. Formed from what was until 1927, the southern part of the municipality of Lari, which was already referred to as Bagni di Casciana.ToponimoThe name Casciana derives from the Latin name of Cassius, with the meaning of ""Cassio’s Land”, but the location is first mentioned by the...

Castel San Pietro is between Imola and Bologna, along the historical Via Emilia. Castel S. Pietro was founded in 1199 as a fortified city, and in 2005 it was certified as “Slow City”, the international network of the Cities of Good Living. The first real spa facility was built in 1870, but some documents date back to 14th century...

Castrocaro Terme e Terra del Sole is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Forlì-Cesena in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about 60 km southeast of Bologna and about 10 km southwest of Forlì. The comune is composed by three small towns of Castrocaro, Terra del Sole and Pieve Salutare. Terra del Sole, founded as 16th century...

Chianciano Terme is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Siena in the Italian region Tuscany, located about 90 km southeast of Florence and about 50 km southeast of Siena. It is located between the Valdichiana and the Val d'Orcia.Chianciano Terme borders the following municipalities: Chiusi, Montepulciano, Pienza, Sarteano.HistoryChianciano Terme can...

Contursi Terme is a village and comune in the province of Salerno in the Campania region of south-western Italy.The thermal baths, insecurely linked to notices by Roman writers, were described in a manuscript Balnea Contursi of 1231. The fifteen thermal springs, with varying mineral content, have retained their curative reputation, for bathing, both in warm...

Crodo is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 140 km northeast of Turin and about 35 km northwest of Verbania. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 1,487 and an area of 61.8 km².[1] The municipality of Crodo contains the frazioni (subdivisions, mainly villages and...

Terme di Equi Terme: thermals of radioactive water rich in minerals such as calcium, bicarbonates and suphates.This thermal water can be  useful for problems of breath, skin and allergies. It is possible to have hot baths, hydro-massages, aerosol therapy, insufflations and inhalations. Dont miss the Grotte di Equi (Equi's caves) which are part of the...

Fiuggi is a comune (municipality) in the province of Frosinone in the region of Lazio in central Italy.Fiuggi, originally called Anticoli di Campagna, gained fame as early as the 14th century, when Pope Boniface VIII claimed his kidney stones had been healed by the mineral waters from the nearby Fiuggi spring. Two centuries later Michelangelo also extolled...

Fratta Terme is an holiday resort in the municipality of Bertinoro. Bertinoro is known as "the Balcony of Romagna": on clear days, the view towards the sea and hills is spectacular. Here, in the heart of Romagna, just a few kilometres from the sea, a visit to the spa of Fratta Terme becomes a real holiday.  

Galzignano Terme is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Padua in the Italian region Veneto, located about 50 km southwest of Venice and about 15 km southwest of Padua. The main attraction is the rural Villa Barbarigo Pizzoni Ardemani, in the frazione Valsanzibio, with a notable example of 17th century garden. Other sights include: Benedictine...

Gambassi Terme is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Florence in the Italian region Tuscany, located about 35 km southwest of Florence.Top sights• The church of San Giovanni Battista, in the frazione of Varna, which houses a replica of Andrea del Sarto's Madonna with Child and Saints.• The Romanesque Pieve of Santa Maria Assunta (12th...

Gaverina Terme is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Bergamo in the Italian region of Lombardy, located about 70 km northeast of Milan and about 20 km northeast of Bergamo. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 940 and an area of 5.2 km².[1] Gaverina Terme borders the following municipalities: Albino, Bianzano, Casazza, Cene, Spinone...

Lamezia Terme, commonly named Lamezia, is a city and comune in the province of Catanzaro (Calabria) in Italy. It is the major city on the Tyrrhenian Sea side of Italy in the 500 km-stretch from Salerno to Reggio Calabria.Lamezia, composed by Nicastro, Sambiase and Sant'Eufemia, is 35 km from Catanzaro, 70 km from Cosenza and 135 km from Reggio Calabria. The...

Levico Terme is famous for its spa and its waters, which are rich in arsenical-ferruginous contents. Their properties were recognized way back in the 16th century. The high concentration of iron and arsenic salts of these waters is helpful in anxiety, stress and nervous diseases treatments. Levico waters are also recommended for disorders of the respiratory...

Lurisia spas, situated between the Ligurian seaside and the Mediterranean Alps, is a perfect location to relax and to spend a holiday in harmony. Lurisia Hydrothermal Institute was established in the 1940’s, and it offers both a wellness centre and an health centre. Health treatments include mud therapy, dermatological baths, inhalations...

Miradolo Terme. is a small but well-known spa resort located in an area studded with villas and castles. Its waters are rich in magnesium and are helpful in treating disorders of the digestive tract.

Montecatini Terme is an Italian district of 21,095 inhabitants within the province of Pistoia in Tuscany. The most important center in Valdinievole. The town is located at the eastern end of Piana di Lucca and has a strong vocation for tourism, as well as industrial and commercial industries based around the spa, which in turn has increased the interest for...

Montegrotto Terme is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Padua in the Italian region Veneto, located about 45 km west of Venice and about 11 km southwest of Padua. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 10,598 and an area of 15.2 km². Montegrotto Terme is a nice and important spa resort, part of the Terme Euganee spas. Therapeutic hot...

Monticelli Terme waters are sodio bromide-iodic waters and are useful to treat respiratory diseases. These spas offer baths, vapor inhalation and others treatments like antrotherapy and water drinking.  

Assured information spread about the Fonti di Pejo is known about in 1660. This is written on a small monograph in good court Latin entitled: "De admirando Dei dono, sive facultatibus acidularum in Valle Solis Episcopatus Tridenti repertarum". The publication gives a series testimonies on the therapeutic virtues of the Fonti di Pejo, the first writing is by...

Pigna is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Imperia in the Italian region Liguria, located about 110 km southwest of Genoa and about 30 km west of Imperia, on the border with France. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 933 and an area of 53.7 km². The municipality of Pigna contains the frazione (subdivision) Buggio. Pigna borders...

Porretta Terme is a town and comune in the province of Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. It is historically a spa town, but it is now also a centre for winter sports. Porretta Terme lies in the luxuriance of the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines, 400 metres above sea-level.  All seasons at the Porretta Spa Centres have their attractions, and provide...

Saint-Vincent is a town and comune in the Aosta Valley region of north-western Italy. Saint-Vincent (575m/1,898ft), is a popular summer holiday resort with mineral springs (recommended for liver and stomach disorders). Beyond this, perched on the left, is the castle of Ussel (c. 1350).

Salsomaggiore Terme is a town and comune in northern Italy. It is located in the province of Parma, in the Emilia-Romagna region, located at the foot of the Apennines. It is a popular Spa town. The water is strongly saline. Due to its sodium content, the mineral water of Salsomaggiore belongs to the group of salty waters, a bromo-iodine-salt variety. A...

San Gemini is a comune (municipality) of c. 4,500 inhabitants in the province of Terni in the Italian region Umbria, located about 60 km south of Perugia and about 10 km northwest of Terni.San Gemini borders the municipalities of Montecastrilli, Narni and Terni.The town is a well-preserved medieval burgh with two lines of walls, built over the remains of a...

San Giuliano Terme is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Pisa in the Italian region Tuscany, located about 60 km west of Florence and about 7 km northeast of Pisa.Top San Giuliano Terme sightsThe area of the Pisa hills was already an attraction for enlightened travellers in the early 18th century with the growth of the thermal spa of San Giuliano...

San Pellegrino Terme is a comune in the province of Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy, best known for being the location where San Pellegrino, a carbonated mineral water drink is produced. The properties of these waters were recognized in the 18th century, and in the middle of the 19th century two spas were opened. At the beginning of the 20th century, the spas were...

Santa Cesarea Terme is  the most important resort in the Salento area. Its hot mineral waters (sulphurous-salso-bromo-iodic) spring out of the subsoil at a maximum temperature of 30 °C in four coastal caves which connect to the sea. Santa Cesarea Spas offer mineral-marine waters baths, mud-treatments, inhalations and gynecological irrigations...

The Terme di Saturnia are a group of springs located in the municipality of Manciano, a few kilometers from the village of Saturnia. The springs that feed the baths, which are found in the south-eastern valley, cover a vast territory that stretches from Mount Amiata and the hills of the Fiora dell'Albegna to the Maremma Grosseto at Roselle (Roselle Terme)...

Spezzano Albanese is an Italian comune in the Province of Cosenza, Calabria. It has 7,036 inhabitants as of 2001. As the name implies, Spezzano Albanese is an Arbëreshë community, and is called Spixan in the dialect of Albanian spoken by its inhabitants. The landscape is typically Mediterranean. From here you can see the Pollino Mountains, a...

Telese Terme, called simply Telese until 1991, is a city and comune in the Province of Benevento, in the Campania region of southern Italy. It is located in the valley of the Calore, well known for its hot sulfur springs. An old word for Sapphire Telese was an ancient Samnite city, known as Telesia. The city was captured by Hannibal in 207 BCE; later...

Le “Terme dei Papi” Thermal Spas  get their  name from the fact that the spas were well appreciated by a Pope, Niccolo the 5th. Thermal spas are located just otside the town of Viterbo.Terme dei Papi hot springs are rich in  sulphur, sulphates, bicarbonates, alkali and mud. Today the complex offers a swimming-pool (2,000 m2) fed...

Thermal Latronico Spas waters have got therapeutic qualities wellknown since prehistory as some archaelogical studies demonstrate. These waters flow at 22 centigrade degrees from two springs, the big one, and the small one, and they are rich in bicarbonate, calcium and sulphur elements. This water, free of germs, is useful against diseases of the...

Rapolla thermal spa have been founded in 1909, and since they were established they have always been known for their therapeutic qualities.These waters flow from the three springs present in the area called ‘Orto del Lago’ in Rapolla. An excellent mud is obtained from these waters and it’s used for cosmetic purposes. The waters of Rapolla...

Sciacca (in Latin: Thermae Selinuntinae),  is a town and comune in the province of Agrigento on the southwestern coast of Sicily. Thermae was founded in the 5th century BCE by the Greeks, as its name imports, as a thermal spa for Selinunte, whose citizens came there to bathe in the sulphurous springs of Mount San Calogero, which rises up behind the...

Tempio Pausania is situated close to Mount Limbara in low Gallura, and It's famous for the spring waters of Rinaggiu which have low mineral content . Perhaps already known in Roman times, Tempio Spas were really exploited only in 1998 when a new spa complex was opened. The water of the Baths of Tempio flows from granitic rocks typical of the area of...

Terme Vigliatore is a small town located in the beautiful gulf along the Tyrrenean Sea, facing the Aeolian Islands, between Tindari (Tyndaris) and the promontory of Milazzo (Mylae).  

In  the Valley of the Sele River, Contursi offers 5 spas that are a famous for their waters and the benefits obtainabled from the properties of these waters. In fact, the Vulpacchio mineral waters are appreciated for their bacteriological purity and for their documented therapeutic properties. In Contursi Spa you can also take a...

Termini Imerese is a town and comune in the province of Palermo on the northern coast of Sicily, southern Italy. Termini Imerese spas, with their hot mineral springs and mud baths are health resorts that offer a range of therapeutic treatments.  

Tivoli Spas:  the Aque Albule  springs The Aque Albule springs are a group of springs that rise at a temperature of about 24° C. They are rich in minerals (in particulars sulphur and carbonate of lime) that make these waters smell. These spas were famous since Romans times. The Romans built there a thermal establishment, known as...

Following information have been written by  by “Ce.F.A.S. Azienda Speciale CCIAA di Viterbo”. All right reservedViterboThe 3.8 km long stretch of massive medieval town walls built during the 11th and 12th centuries that still enclose Viterbo today bear mute witness to the town’s historical and political importance during the Middle...

Vallio Terme is a comune in the province of Brescia, in Lombardy. It is bounded by other communes of Agnosine, Caino, Gavardo, Odolo, Paitone, Sabbio Chiese, Serle.