Spas in Romagna
| Hillside Spas |
 | Salsomaggiore Spa |
The mineral water of the Salsomaggiore Spa is one of the saltiest to be found in nature. it
was appreciated and used for the extraction of salt as far back as the pre-Roman age. It was
the local Salsomaggiore doctor, Lorenzo Berzieri who, in 1839, first experimented
successfully with the therapeutic properties of this water. From the on these waters have
been used in the prevention and cure of many arthro-rheumatic, gynaecological and
respiratory complaints, for circulatory and aesthetic problems (cellulite).The urban
development of Salsomaggiore and its coming into being as a spa town gradually came
about through time spans which, from the origins of the little salt town, took the form of that
neo-bourgeois entrepreneurial design which, in the first decade of this century, strengthens
its image as "Ville d'eaux" at an international level. 
By experimenting with the Liberty-style
architectural language, the city has found its identity mark which, for more than half a century
has characterised the social habits and customs of the refined Žlite who normally attend the
spa. At the beginning of the 20th century, work was begun on the construction of the spa
establishment "Lorenzo Berzieri", a sumptuous monument of thermal art Deco with the
elaborate decorations of Galileo Chini. It was inaugurated in 1923 and still today it
accommodated the numerous spa lovers. The 70s saw the inauguration of the Zoia spa, a
modern functional structure, work of the architect Franco Albini, within the bounds of the
Mazzini Park. These two structures can carry out as many as 15,000 treatments a day. At the
Zoia Spa there is a Centre for aesthetic medicine working full-time on a particular anti-
cellulite treatment using the sodiobromidiodic waters with extremely high saline density (150
grams of salt per litre). This treatment is proving a great success and is becoming the
trademark of this thermal station.Salsomaggiore is about 32 kilometres from Parma and 100
from Milan and Bologna, has good road and rail connections, and is within easy reach of
national and international airports.The Salsomaggiore Spa Company, owner of the two
establishments, also owns two large hotels with internal spa treatments: the Grand Hotel
Porro and the Hotel Valentini which are situated in a private 60,000 square metre park with
an indoor thermal swimming pool. 
The guests who stay at these two hotels can take
advantage of special "package" stays with reduced rates for treatments: the "Spa beauty
week" with anti-cellulite programmes, the "fitness week" with traditional treatments and the
"relaxation week". All these programmes offer thermal and aesthetic treatments, as well as
gymnastics and sporting activities.There is also the "green week" which provides for free
time activities; for golf fans the use of the green is free. Still within the thermal framework
there is Villa Igea, a clinic for functional rehabilitation staffed by a team of specialist
doctors. Due to their sodium content, the Salsomaggiore mineral waters belong to the
sodiobromidiodic variety of salt waters, for the presence of bromine and iodine; they are cold
hypertonic waters which come up from the 800 to 1,200 metre deep artesian wells at a
temperature of 16¡ and a saline density three times greater that that of the Dead Sea (16
Baum degrees, which corresponds to about 150 grams of salt per litre of water).Since 1920,
the Pharmaceutical Chemical Institute of the Salsomaggiore Spa has been producing famous
salts for inhalations and irrigations, and has also created a line of natural cosmetic products
based on the active principles of the sodiobromidiodic waters. These products can be bought
at the two spa premises, at the Palazzina Warowland and at all good Italian chemist's.
| Address: Via Roma, 9
43039
Salsomaggiore Terme (Pr) | Tel.: 0524/578201
Fax: 0524/576987 Free phone: 1678/31685 |
| Waters: | sodiobromidiodic hypertonic. |
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Treatments
| baths with hydromassage, ozone, micro-bubbles, mud baths, inhalations,
humages, pulverisation, nasal irrigations, inner ear insufflations, vaginal irrigations and
areosol, oral balneotherapy, aesthetic medicine, anti cellulite treatment and movement
rehabilitation. |
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