Montecatini Thermal baths - details and images

Montecatini Terme it is undoubtedly one of the more important thermal centers of Europe. His waters' ownership, you uses for the therapy idropinica, but also for treatments of beauty and for the comfort general psicofisico, is note since the antiquity but has received the definitive consecration in 1417 with the essay "De Balneorum Italiae proprietatibus" of Ugolino from Montecatini, reader of medicine in the universities in Pisa, Florence and Perugia and considered then to full right "founder of the idrologia Italian."

In 1733 the construction of the establishments started, that are extended today for a surface of 460.000 square meters: an enormous green lung where possible to practise fangoterapia is, balneoterapia, idromassaggi, fisiochinesiterapia in thermal swimming pool and therapies of rehabilitation.

Thermal waters originate from a stratum that it is found to a depth of 60-80 meters.

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