Region: VENETO
Province code: PD
Zip code: 35031
Phone area code: 049
Distance from: PADOVA 10 Km / 6 Miles
Elevation: 14 mt / 46 feet
Abano Terme
Getting there
By train: Abano Station, Venice-Bologna line
By car: SS 250; A4 Padua-Ferrara-Bologna
By bus: from Milan, Venice, Bologna and Trieste
By air: Tessera Airport, near Venice (42 km)
Treatment centres
In all the hotels in Abano
Description
Situated at the foot of the Euganei hills, to the south-west of Padua, Abano Terme is now the best mud therapy centre in Europe, thanks to its specialisation and the high standard of its facilities and organisation. The therapeutic qualities of the radioactive waters that come from the Montirone springs and its mud cures have been famous since Roman times. Abano’s great popularity is recent, however – it is only in the last few decades that its many hotels have sprung up to take advantage of the underground thermal waters.
The town is mostly modern, with beautiful tree-lined avenues. You can visit the Church of San Lorenzo, first built in the tenth century but completely rebuilt by Carato in the eighteenth. The pointed brick bell tower dates back to the fourteenth century.
Treatments
Thermal baths, mud baths, irrigation, inhalation, grottoes and heat rooms, hydromassage, massotherapy, physiotherapy and beauty treatments.
Excursions
Monteortone, Praglia Abbey, Euganei hills, Padua, Monselice, Este, Montagnana, Vicenza, Venice, the villas of the Veneto, Ferrara, Pomposa Abbey and Lake Garda.
Sports
Tennis courts, indoor and open air thermal swimming pools, mini-golf, riding and golf course.
Getting there