Baths

Bath Jean Varraud: it is the only one still operating with water at 54°, vapor caves, mud therapy, hidromassage, inhalations and skin care, home of the first casino in the world, where the roulette wheel has turned for the first time in Europe.

Docce Basse spa: hot spring from 42° to 46°, now disused, where in the late Middle Ages, diseases were cured with showers, which at the time was a novelty. Here Falloppio discovered the operation of the fallopian tubes, and legend tell that … “If you want your woman to remain pregnant she must go to the bath and you not be there” and that the source called “Disperata” cured diseases that otherwise tended the undertaker.

Hospital Demidoff: water at 46°, was built by Prince Demidoff in 1828 as a hospital for the poor. Today it is a center of holistic medicine.

Bernabo spa with water at 40.1°, extraordinary care of all skin problems. In 1510 a certain Bernabo da Pistoia, a rich man but with a horrible skin disease, he immersed himself in the spring where the villagers carried the sick animals to heal and came out cured. Bernabo built at his own expense this establishment that bears his name. Of course, the European nobility came here to remove signs of smallpox. Restored by Elisa in 1812 under the Sanbuchy project was considered the spa with the most beautiful panorama in Italy.

San Giovanni Bath: with sources at 38°, is mentioned for the first time as an existing building in 1307. Named for the popular tradition of going for a swim to the anniversary of the saint. The spring fed copious 6 tanks used for the treatment of various categories of people: the Knights, Citizens, Women, Jews, and finally the servants. Should not be very capacious because some writers write that plunged 50 people at a time. There was drinking and bottled water from the fourteenth century to the postwar period. Here Heine was inspired for his famous Reisebilder page.

Bath at Villa: with water at 39°, restored by the Republic in 1376. The Bertini (director of the Baths), after a subsequent restoration in 1471 wanted to put in front a marble slab where indicated all the healing done inside the factory, the first description of the advertising spas in the world. Frequented by Montaigne who cured his kidney stone urinating 36 calculus of the size of a small olive. Among the distinguished visitors there was also Ramolino Letizia, Napoleon’s mother, remembered for his stinginess (wanted the baker withdraw the dry bread and replace it with the fresh one).

Cardinali Bath: with water at 37.1° to the source named Cova (mentioned for the first time only in 1775), still used today as a solution to all the problems of digestion, indicated to be “digest even stones”, as they say villagers. Before it was called Bagno Gualoppino (already mentioned in 1292) because the horses were brought here to water and cared. Built as a new plant from a certain Cardinals in 1858 near the Royal Casino, the only private facility in operation until 1921, it was later used as a private residence.