Terme Bagni di Lucca
Tuscan cure town of Shelley and Byron, above the Lima river.
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- Source temperature
- 54°C
- Bathing temperature
- 37°C
- Bathing
- Indoor
- Accommodation
- Hotel on site
Bagni di Lucca's hot springs, used in the Middle Ages and formalised under Napoleonic rule, made it a fashionable nineteenth-century resort for the English Romantics and for Europe's exiles. Hot water at around 54 °C still feeds the historic bath house and a natural steam grotto cut into the rock.
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The water
Thermal water
- Source
- Bagni di Lucca springs
- Mineralisation
- Sulphate-bicarbonate thermal water
- Character
- Hot springs feeding pools and a natural steam grotto cut into the rock.
Practical information
In the Serchio valley an hour from Lucca; grotto and pool sessions are booked in advance, and the town's villas, Anglican church and cemetery recall its Romantic-era visitors.
Location
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