Italy (Italian: Italia), officially the Italian Republic, (Italian: Repubblica Italiana), is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia. Italy shares its northern Alpine boundary with France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia. The independent states of San Marino and the Vatican City are enclaves within the Italian Peninsula, while Campione d'Italia is an Italian exclave in Switzerland.  Italy is known by 20 regions across these major areas: Alps · Apennines · Northern Italy · Central Italy · Southern Italy. Italy has been the home of many European cultures, such as the Etruscans and the Romans, and later was the birthplace of the movement of the Renaissance, that began in Tuscany and spread all over Europe. Italy's capital Rome has been the center of Western civilization, and is the center of the Catholic Church. The terms balnea or thermae were the words the ancient Romans used for the buildings housing their public baths. Most Roman cities had at least one, if not many, such buildings, which were centers of public bathing and socialization. Baths were the most important for Romans. They stayed there for several hours and went there daily to bath, exercise, and relax. Roman bath-houses were also provided for private villas, town houses and forts — these were also called thermae.

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The five-star Hotel Terme Bristol Buja is a modern spa hotel, right in the center of Abano Terme, surrounded by a large, quiet garden-park. The hotel boasts extensive and modern treatment facilities including mud baths, resident medical specialists, collective courses of gymnastics in water and in the gymnasiums. The Bristol Buja is also associated with three golf courses.
Your wellness is assured at the San Clemente Palace, thanks to our exclusive and personalized services, treatments, massage, gym, sunbathing, products, and more, which will wrap our guests in a renewed sense of prosperity. In our spa hotel time stops and starts rich in health and relaxation: it's a holiday of deserved relaxation, or a more measured invigorating feeling after a business meeting or after a day spent between museums and city streets.

Rome Cavalieri Hilton, Italy, is situated in a 15-acre private park just above the Vatican, with panoramic views over the historic city centre. It's a 5-star deluxe resort hotel within the city, featuring 370 guest rooms with private balconies, including 25 suites and 105 Executive rooms, plus the state-of-the-art Grand Spa. A highly prized art collection is displayed throughout the hotel. The six food and beverage outlets include the famous Michelin three-star-rated La Pergola restaurant. The hotel can accommodate conferences for up to 5,500 delegates

At the heart of Tuscany there is a spring from which healing waters have flowed for centuries. The Etruscans and Romans discovered the cleansing and fortifying properties of the waters and made use of them accordingly. The waters obtain their healing forces from the depths of the earth, where they are enriched with valuable minerals and sulphur before rising once again to the surface.  Just a stone's throw from the romantic village of Bagno Vignoni, in the fertile Val d’Orcia – now a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage site – stands the ADLER THERMAE Spa Resort. This oasis of wellbeing is the ideal place to enjoy the precious waters from the hot springs and gather new strength through an exclusive programme of individual treatments.  The water from the springs flows and flows and, as in the past, brings health and relaxation to body and soul.
Grotta Giusti Spa Hotel is located in the heart of the famed Tuscany valley, only a few kilometers from the region's most famous cultural cities, Florence, Pisa, Siena and Lucca.  Grotta Giusti offers its guests a number of excursions towards a lesser known Tuscany but no less authentic, to make a pleasant, relaxing holiday more complete.   Grotta Giusti is one of Nature's gifts to man.  Starting from the entrance through to the deepest part of the Grotta, three different zones are crossed, each one increasing in heat, which tradition has named Paradise, Purgatory and Hell. Limbo has a picturesque lake, the waters of which maintain a constant temperature, both in winter and summer, of 36°C. Even the temperature of the air undergoes very little change over the seasons, ranging from 31°C. in the first cavity to a maximum 34°C. in Hell, with an approximate 100% humidity.  The atmospheric pressure is constant and the same as outside, in all parts of the Grotta. An unexplained, natural mechanism guarantees a constant and efficient change of air, making the stay in the Grotta a pleasant one, even with the profuse perspiration induced by the high level of humidity, rather than by the temperature. The steam of the rich thermal waters generates a natural "bath of health" which detoxifies the organism for an overall sense of well-being.   Grotta Giusti is a natural paradise on the slopes of Monsummano hill. Immersed in the beauty of the Tuscan countryside, surrounded by the greenery of a centuries-old park, the Grotta Giusti complex is an enchanting and perfectly equipped Spa centre with a feature that makes it unique: the ancient grotto, which envelops the guest in a beneficial and detoxifying thermal steam bath
Terme di Saturnia Spa & Golf Resort is a wellness hotel located at the foot of Saturnia in the hearth of tuscan Maremma country.   Constructed around an ancient travertine heart, our elegant hotel consists of 140 rooms, comprising 2 Grand Suites, 3 Suites and 71 Junior Suites, all designed according to Habitat philosophy: a constant striving for harmony with one's surroundings.  At Terme di Saturnia Spa & Golf Resort everything is focused on guest's well being. Their psycho-physical balance is given the utmost care and their well being is to be build and maintained through five equally fundamental and integral elements such as hydrotherapy, beauty, stress management, diet and fitness.  Thanks to the support and the advice of the Spa specialized equipe your well-being program is voted to a complete personalization in the way to balance fitness and relax, beauty treatments and thermal cures specifically created on your body and mind needs.  The Tuscan Beauty Farm Terme di Saturnia Spa & Golf Resort gives you the opportunity to regenerate all senses, and to came back to the daily routine with a new spirit.
Terme Villa Borri in Tuscany is housed in an old farm house which dates back to the seven hundreds. This majestic home has been finely restored without altering its unique dimensions and its original characteristics, while adding rich innovations and fascinating novelties which provide elements of notable quality. This luxury spa hotel in Tuscany is one of the first true “beauty farms” in the area.   The Spa and Wellness Center is located within the Villa.  Guests may easily and comfortably stroll the grounds in a spa robe by simply walking a few short meters within the private park which surrounds the complex. This casual and natural ambiance provides guests with la sense of freedom and liberty.  The Spa and Wellness Center is the heart of the Villa, and offers twelve exclusive thermal suites. The treatment and wellness rooms are each unique and offer ample space with antique murals. Certain spa suites have original fireplaces dating back to the seven hundreds. The natural light colors create a unique and romantic atmosphere during fireplace massages. In order to guarantee guests  enjoy absolute relaxation and enhance the eco-friendly atmosphere, no type of mechanical vehicles are permitted within the grounds. Upon arrival at the grounds, guests and their luggage are then valeted to their residence by the Villa's silent valet electric car.
The Tombolo Thalassotherapy Center and SPA wellness professionals and qualified staff pamper our Guests with all the treatment and cures necessary to rediscover health, well-being and harmony.  The ancient art of massage is performed here by expert hands and combined with modern western techniques to encourage total physical and psychological regeneration. Massages like Shiatzu, Thai, Aromatherapy and Scen Tao exploit the calming and revitalizing properties of essential oils to improve circulation and tone the skin.  Our Wellness Center is also a real “SPA - Salus Per Aquam ”, meaning “health through water”. Sea water is our extraordinary resource and we fetch it 900 meters from the coast to give our Guests a wide selection of thalassotherapic treatments like hydro-massages with algae or salts, underwater hydro-massages, jet showers, horizontal sea rain showers and many more.

You can smell the blooming jasmine the minute you step off the aliscafo or boat from Naples. Capri, where Emperor Tiberius vacationed, is truly a magic island. But time for that later, first you catch a taxi to Anacapri, perched high in the hills above Capri, for the Capri Palace Hotel & Beauty Farm, with its beautifully landscaped grounds and comfortable rooms.    Capri Beauty Farm is a fully equipped SPA and it proposes personalized programmes and treatments. It is led by Professor Francesco Canonaco, a medical doctor and specialist in food science, immunology and aesthetic medicine. Services offered include: Thalassotherapy, hydromassage with algae, fine diet cooking, weight loss programme, cardiovascular health programme, and water gymnastics.

The Jolly Hotel delle Terme is right in the centre of Ischia Port, near to the famous Castello Aragonese and the popular Riva destra, not far from the Torre di Michelangelo and the Stadium. It is also set in the towns commercial area that boasts a variety of restaurants and bars. Jolly Hotel Delle Terme is sorrunded by a wonderful park of Mediterranean vegetation, with two swimming pools. It has 194 rooms, 5 conference rooms and a large, modern thermal health and and beauty farm.

The exclusive Forte Village Resort & Wellness Centre offers seven individual hotels and a village of Sardinian bungalows, 21 restaurants, and a wolrd-famous wellness centre, situated in 55 acres of pine forest. The resort has its own private beach stretching for over a mile and guests can enjoy a huge variety of sports and leisure facilities. The heavenly climate and Thermae del Parco afford the Mediterranean culture's best-kept secret: thalassotherapy. As living materials, sea water, salt, mud and sand are the softest, most effective cure against muscular/osteo/articular ailments, skin problems, water retention, the stress and tension of modem life. The Thaermae of Forte Village host the Thalassotherapy Centre directed by Dr. Angelo Cerina, one of the foremost international specialists in this sector. Thalassotherapy, as is demonstrated by all the latest scientific studies, can be considered a true “Wellness medicine”, as also asserted by the World Health Organization. Through curative elements taken from the sea environment (water, sand, seaweed) associated with supplemental treatments, at the Resort’s Spa you can preserve or regain, as the case may be, your best mental and physical balance: your body regains its pliancy and tonic qualities, your skin becomes radiant, your soul smiles again, stress and toxins are removed by the action of sea and sun. The Spa of Forte Village Resort is the perfect place where the whole family can spend a vacation enjoying the benefits of this natural technique and recouping energy, vigour and joie de vivre. The Wellness Centre is surrounded by a luxuriant garden, where the wonders of Sardinian nature contribute to the pleasure and relaxation of guests. In this paradise full of marvels you may, for instance, absorb energy from the five seawater pools at different temperatures. Each provides a different emotion, ranging from the intensity of sea oil to the velvet of aloe. Just like a flower, your wellness will blossom anew. A team of experts will be at your full disposal, at a Spa of great refinement and luxury, to lead you along a personalised course including a range of top quality treatments: discover everything the most famous Wellness Centre in Sardinia has in store for you.

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