With over 75 spa-wellness hotels and 120+ swimming pools, Abano Terme, La Città Termale, with its natural thermal waters and therapeutic mud wraps, attracts more than 250,000 overnight guests a year with an additional 2 million visitors stopping long enough during a calendar year to be statistically counted.
Choose from an array of benessere (wellness) accommodations — from three-star comfort to five-star luxury, with half and full-pension options — as each and every hotel taps directly into the rare, underground spa source, providing its guests with medically and professionally-monitored therapies and aesthetic treatments.
Any visit to Abano Terme should begin at the monumental entrance to Sorgente Montirone, the little park on Montirone Hill where the history of La Città Termale began. Located at the start of the pedonale (pedestrian-only walkway), at the corner of Via Augure and Via d’Abano, the Corinthian colonnaded gate leads you back in time to the very source from which the underground spa waters first bubbled to the surface.
It stands to reason that a town built solely around thermal-fired H2O would have plenty of fountains dotting the urbanscape, and you’d be correct. Along with just about every one of the town’s spa-wellness hotels sporting a water feature of some sort near their entryway, Greater Abano’s water features stand out and are open to the public. Two of the most popular are the circular Fontana di Arlecchino (Harlequin Fountain), the centerpiece along the pedonale, and Columbus Fountain in Piazza Cristoforo Colombo, the largest sculpture in all of Europe dedicated to the Genovese explorer-navigator.
Find your fountain of youth when you come to Abano Terme, benessere in the heart of the Veneto.
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