Surrounded by the relaxing greenery of the Euganean Hills, the Euganean Spas (Terme Euganee), with the two main centres of Abano and Montegrotto and the smaller ones of Galzignano, Battaglia and Monteortone of Teolo, are famous worldwide for the mud and spa treatments.

The secret is in the spa water, which falls into the category of deep underground waters. They are of meteroic origin and derive from the uncontaminated basins of the Lessini Mountains in the foothills of the Alps, passing through calcareous rocks and into the subsoil at a depth of approximately 80 kilometer route that takes an average of 25/30 years. During this time they take on mineral sals and finally reach the Euganean Spas where they spring forth at a temperature of 87°C. The abundance of the dissolved substances make this water a unique thermal resource, one of its kind in the world. From the chemical point of view these waters are classified as hyperthermal sodiobromidiodic waters.

The healing virtues of the Terme Euganee waters were already appreciated by the Euganean people, who over 2000 years ago had a sacred lake here for the veneration of the God Aponus, the god of thermal waters. During the Roman age (1st-2nd c. A.D.), the Fons Aponi (Aponus’spring) became very important and famous. The spas were attended both for healing and religious reasons: the legend says that one of the roman Emperors went to the Fons Aponi to have the response of the Gerione oracle, a mysterious god who said the future through the hot waters.

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