Region: TOSCANA
Province code: PT
Zip code: 51016
Phone area code: 0572
Distance from: PISTOIA 14 Km / 9 Miles
Elevation: 27 mt / 89 feet
Montecatini Terme
Getting there:
By train: Montecatini Terme Station, the Florence-Pistoia-Lucca-Viareggio line
By car: the Firenze-Mare motorway, exit at the Montecatini toll booths.
By bus: from Florence, Pisa, Lucca, Pistoia and Viareggio.
By air: Florence Airport (40 km)
Pisa Airport (50 km)
Treatment centres
Tettuccio e Regina, Viale Verdi 71, tel. 0572 778501
Excelsior, Viale Verdi, tel. 0572 778511
La Salute, Via della Salute 20, tel. 0572 778571
Torretta, Piazzale Torretta 1, tel. 0572 778541
Leopoldine, Viale Verdi 67, tel. 0572 778551
Redi, Viale Bicchierai 64, tel. 0572 778531
Tamerici, Viale Tamerici 69, tel. 0572 778561
Description
This is one of the most popular and best known thermal spas in Italy. It is situated in the Nievole Valley at the foot of the Pistoia Apennines. The curative properties of its waters have been known since the Middle Ages. The town began as a small spa at the end of the eighteenth century and grew to its present dimensions in recent times. The waters which come from the various thermal and subthermal springs are divided into three types: “strong” water (from the Tamerici and Torretta springs) which is purgative, “medium” water (from the Regina spring) which is laxative, and “weak” water (from the Tettuccio and Rinfresco springs) which is diuretic. They are mostly used for drinking but also for bathing, mud baths and inhalation. You can visit the neoclassical parish church built by Cambray-Digny in 1824, the park on which the art nouveau Excelsior baths are built, the eighteenth century Leopoldine baths and the luxurious Tettuccio establishment.
Treatments
Drinking water cures, thermal baths, mud baths, irrigation, inhalation, hydromassage, massotherapy and physiotherapy.
Excursions
Collodi, Pescia, Monsummano Terme, Montevettoli, Vinci, Pistoia, Serravalle, Abetone, Florence, Lucca, Pisa, Viareggio, Volterra, San Gimignano and Siena.
Sports
Tennis courts, swimming pools, wing shooting, bowling green and race course.
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