From the bath in Etruscan and then Roman times to the post station in the early Middle Ages to treat horses sick with mange, which flourished again in 1800 by Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany, finally became a chic and healing destination in the twenties with the opening of the 1919 restaurant still active today: all around the boiling spring, with water at 37.5 degrees full of beneficial substances for the cardio-circulatory system (reduces blood pressure), respiratory (increases lung ventilation), skin, liver (detoxifying) and joints (relaxing and anti-inflammatory effect). Italy is a country of spas, Tuscany in particular, but what characterizes it is the diversity of the waters, all unique to our territory. At the Terme di Saturnia the water is sulphurous and bicarbonated, the spring is crater and not overflow as they commonly are, the power of the underground flow is record-breaking, 550 liters of water per second (which by the way means always clean, never stagnant), originating from Mount Amiata which was a volcano and with a geological cycle of at least 70 years during which the water is incredibly enriched with limestone, sulphur, minerals.
"Such a composed water - explains to ANSA the health director Manela Scaramuzzino - is unique in the world, something similar could be found in northern Japan, not in Europe. Here in Saturnia, water has a particular balance, which usually does not happen in waters with various components: it is sulphurous (14 mg per litre of hydrogen sulphide), carbonic (462 cc per litre of free carbon dioxide), sulphate (contains sulphate ions in prevalent quantities), bicarbonate-alkaline-earthy (contains bicarbonate, calcium and magnesium ions in significant quantities). It has a thermal plankton, which is a gelatinous organic-mineral substance that has normalizing and moisturizing powers on the skin, so much so that it is also used for cosmetics. A glass in the morning on an empty stomach is an additional care beyond that of bathing and soaking.
Salus per Aquam
The Roman principle of Salus per Aquam is now further confirmed by science. Bathing in the water of the Saturnia thermal baths can be a specific treatment path (with the prescriptions of the national health service) but also simply, but no less important, a break in general well-being, "for the peak of blood serotonin - continues Scaramuzzino - which is immediately activated.
Beyond the pathology, thermal water is a wellness practice that empirically we feel we are doing when we are lulled by this hot liquid but which is now scientifically certified and it is no coincidence that before these studies man has always looked for thermal water to feel good".
Around the spring that has been bubbling since 100 years ago, a structure has been built that has gradually become the 5-star resort it is today, a destination with a thermal spa and beauty clinic and an 18-hole GEO certified golf course, affiliated with The Leading Hotels of the World, Virtuoso and Starhotels Collezione, in the heart of that special land that is the Tuscan Maremma, a border area with particular views ranging from Monte Amiata to the Argentario promontory, to the small medieval villages among the most beautiful in Italy.
Regaining well-being is a method
We aim for a complete program of natural balance through a method that is a real system to take care of yourself. And so, in addition to the food program, thermal and mud baths, beauty clinic treatments, he also sees two ingredients of well-being that are not always present in spa destinations and that instead in Saturnia are a fundamental part of a TdS method based on the concept of balance: movement (with morning walks, Nordic Walking, personal training sessions, yoga lessons with the certified yogi Lorenza Minola of LoYoga App) and naturopathy, a natural path to rebalance all energy systems and enhance the state of psychotic health (with the conduction of Laura Quinti).
A historic moment for Italian spas
"The spa system - says Scaramuzzino making a strategic point on thermalism - is coming out of the crisis of the 90s and is recovering a lot in this last period: the post-pandemic is a fundamental historical moment, which causes an enormous need for well-being for everyone, has changed our life priorities and made us jump to the first place with an awareness that perhaps before there was no need to feel good in balance with ourselves and This is why being lulled by the warm waters is such a heartfelt passage that improves our physical and emotional state even simply with a day at the spa, a weekend".
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