Terme Tettuccio
The grandest of Montecatini's drinking-cure halls, rebuilt in 1928 with marble colonnades and painted galleries.
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- Source temperature
- 23°C
- Bathing
- Indoor / Outdoor
- Established
- 1779
Montecatini Terme is one of the Great Spa Towns of Europe inscribed by UNESCO, and Tettuccio is its architectural set piece. Behind a long colonnade, visitors move between fountains of saline-sulphate water under frescoed ceilings and stained glass.
Balnevia view
Why visit
Tettuccio is best understood as architecture: an early twentieth-century temple to the drinking cure, still functioning as one.
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The water
Thermal water
- Source
- Tettuccio spring
- Mineralisation
- Saline-sulphate
- Character
- Drinking-cure water dispensed in the historic halls.
Practical information
The historic halls open seasonally, generally from spring to autumn; bathing pools are elsewhere in town.
Location
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