Thermal Spas in Emilia Romagna

May 5th, 2008


In Emila Romagna the quality of the life is important, it is not any surprise to note that it is at the house with a part the establishments of thermal spa of Italy ‘ and finest centers of health. These “skies of wellbeing”, often regulated in beautiful normal environments, are the perfect places to slacken and take a cut of the frantic life of businesses. Of Appennines close of Piacenza at the coast of Romagna, the area offers a dense network of the thermal spas which employ normal spring water to treat a range of food, diseases and disorders. In much of case these establishments have interesting stories which are closely related to the traditions of long date of the culture of thermal spa. However, in spite to have their origins in the past, they really modernized, incorporating last technology. These thermal thermal spas offer treatments integrated for the care of health and body, but there are also other interesting options associated various sports, and their cultural activities or leisures. Bagno di Romagna Term Because the archaeological remainders of the baths of Sant’ Agnese show, there was interest for the curative properties of its hot springs since the Roman periods, when the city was called Oppidum Balnei. Today, Bagno di Romagna is a thermal spa of health with the following equipment: Sant’ Agnese, to go back complex to first thermal spa of the century of i8th, the thermal spa of Roseo Term and the complex of thermal hotel-station of Euroterme. Sant’ Agnese offers the hydropinic treatments (drinking spring water), mud and the balneo-therapy, the caves normal (for the vapor therapy), and the treatments for the vascular diseases and of the gynaecological problems. There is also a center of health. The thermal spa of Roseo Term has its own spring and, in more of the principal treatments (therapy of mud, a vapor cave, inhalations, baths and irrigations of various kinds) offers the readjustment physiokinesitherapy and motor coach. This thermal spa also has a center of health. Euroterme has a thermal swimming pool complexes, partially of interior and partially in the open air, with a solarium, a hydraulics-massage, falls of geyser, underwater beds of massage, an underwater therapy of music and a paediatric department with coloured play-grounds. It also has a medical centre of sports and a center of health. The properties of water alkaline of sulfurous bicarbonate are salutary in the treatment of the circulatory diseases, liver and of the complaints cholagogues, of the problems of the digestive area, the systems driving and respiratory, and the urinary tract, the disorders of metabolism and the problems gynaecological. Castrocaro Terme There is a not very common history behind the discovery of the hot springs here. In 1829, the customs officers some caught a smuggler in the act to steal a small water barrel salted within the competences of the river of Bolga. The court ordered to pay a fine since it was found guilty of the flight of the state (since salt was a monopoly of state) and was ordered that stolen water should be analyzed. The scientific analysis proved that water contained not only salt, but also brominates and iodizes. This carried out to the first therapeutic experiments and the construction of the equipment of thermal spa, as well as the sale of mineral water. The complex of thermal spa of Castrocaro Term, founded in 1843, comprises three buildings located in park of 8 hectares. They were conceived by the architect Florentin Boboli, the same man who created the gardens of Boboli with Florence, and are directly connected to the merry hotel Grande Albergo Terme. The thermal spa is placed in an environment of relaxation and has excellent equipment for the sport and the entertainment, including vast external swimming pool, hydraulics-massage and trempolines, a course of miniature golf and a dance-floor in the open air. In more of the traditional treatments of thermal spa, there is a center of health of specialist; a center of health with swimming pools fed with spring water, hydraulics-massage, a sauna, a Turkish bath, a vapor cave, a Scottish shower, a center of readjustment (specializing in complaints of shoulder); a diagnosis, a prevention and a readjustment center for the vascular and lymphatic diseases; departments of aesthetic medicine and traditional Chinese medicine, and a homeopathic service of medicine. The temperature of water extends from 6.5°C/44°F with 15°C/59°F and is salutary in the treatment of the circulatory diseases, the complaints of skin, of the problems of the digestive area, the driving system and the respiratory system and the disorders of urinary tract, of metabolism, gynaecological and stomatologic. Riccione Term According to the tradition, blessed Alexius, holy owner of the city, made the nozzle of water starting from a rock to extinguish the thirst for some pélerins. Other tales connect that the corsairs Turkish were accustomed to stopping at Riccione during their incursions on the coasts of the Adriatic, in order to draw benefit from the thermal springs here. The historical sources provide the obviousness that the spring water here was appreciated by the Diocletian emperor and, in century of i/th, by Queen Christina of Sweden. However, Riccione did not really become a town of thermal spa until the 2oth century, when it suddenly became a popular destination of tourists. Today, Riccione has a modern complex of thermal spa to comprise two houses (Power station and Bianco), together in park of 40.000 m2 with a range of equipment. The complex is the jet of a stone of the sea of Riccione, principal beach of the health of Italy, with a swimming pool fed with, spring water inhalatory treatment and hydraulics-massage of water fall. The sector of health is very important here. Oasi di Riccione Terme has a center for the thermal surgery of medicine and esthet (with rooms of gymnastics, 4 swimming pools fed with spring water, a cave wet-heat, massed it, and the mud therapy), and the beach of health of Bagno 49 of marina of. There are many therapeutic treatments available (for the disintoxication, the osteoporosis, giving to the top of nicotinism, badly of back) and a vast range of the heat treatments and aesthetic. Water here is recommended in the treatment of the circulatory diseases, liver and of the complaints cholagogues, the disorders of skin, ol of problems the digestive area, the driving system, respiratory system, the urinary tract, a metabolism and gynaecological disorder. Salsomaggiore Terme the iodic water of salt bromine of Salsomaggiore was already well known and used at the 8th century, because of its high percentage of salt. The public first spacomplex, which goes back to 1858, became famous Italy everywhere soon. The company of Term di Salsomaggiore actuates the establishments of thermal spa of Zoia of andTerme of Berzieri Term. The old one was built of 1913-1923 in the art nouveau and the models of Deco of art. The last, built in Parco Mazzini in 1970, has a different model based on simplicity and the functionality. The range of the treatments offered by the thermal spa staggers. Terme Berzieri has not only departments of inhalation and mud therapy (where salt the iodic bromine water is concentrated in alleged the madre acqua - brine - and normal mud), but incorporates the center of health of Tempio di Igea (with a sauna, a Turkish bath, a shower of French, treatments aromatic, treatments of beauty and the massage). Terme Zoia offers all the traditional treatments of thermal spa and has a modern medical centre and various specialized centers (paediatric inhalations, thermal hydrotherapy, analyses of osteoporosis, hygiene of mouth and aesthetic medicine). The company of Term di Salsomaggiore also actuates two hotels with internal treatments: the hotel large Porro and the Valentini hotel. The two buildings are located in park where there is also a large swimming pool of interior (the only one downtown fed with thermal spring water). Not far from these buildings, in the center of city, is Istituto Termale Baistrocchi, a historical establishment with 300 rooms, which offers to its guests a new department of treatment and weekly programs to improve physical health. The water within the competence of Salsomaggiore Terme (i6°C/6i°F) is good for the treatment of the circulatory diseases, and the problems related to the respiratory systems of themotoryand, as well as of the gynaecological and stomatologic complaints.