One of the most popular salons of Europe and one of the most famous hotels in the “Belle Epoque“.
Winston Churchill, the Reali in Europe, Luisa Baccara are some of the great names of the past that have “lived” the atmosphere of this grand example of Art Nouveau architecture. The majestic hall, the “Historical Bar”, common spaces, the reading rooms and dining room are strictly decorated in original style.
The Water
Acqui: once home to hot springs – the "Scalding" gushing at 75° C in the heart of the city – go back quickly, without having time to cool, fault – through fissures in the Earth's crust – from great depths, where in relation to the so-called geothermal gradient and the likely closeness of magma mass have gained the high temperature that distinguishes them. In fact it is rainwater that seeps slowly over 60 or 70 years through the subsoil from Acqui si are enriched in minerals, mostly those issued by extensive salt deposits of that arm of the sea that once covered the area of the current Po. Therefore, our sources are commonly considered in terms of chemical composition, In addition to sulphur, especially sulphuretted: This definition which shows typical elements of sea water.
Since Roman antiquity, these waters have had a significant therapeutic use in the spa facilities of the city as well as in the middle ages, time around our care starts to coagulate a greatly enriched medical treatises in modern and contemporary age constitutes an eloquent historical and scientific support to the validity of the Spa of Acqui: once home therapies.
For this we can say , today as yesterday, that mud and charged to the Spa of Acqui possess analgesic and muscle relaxant properties that promote use in primary and secondary osteoarthritis, in fibromialgia, in PERIARTHRITIS, in tendinitis; Similarly various inhalations (inhalations, aerosol, humage, sprays) and the Insufflation tube-tympanic membrane due to their expectorant antiphlogistic effects, immune reinforcement are indicated in the treatment of rhinitis, sinusitis and chronic simple pharyngitis and obstructive; vaginal irrigation play an important anti-inflammatory role in chronic and atrophic vaginitis and in various forms of painful pelvic sclerosis; and, yet, the cycle of vascular hydrogymnastics is used to treat linfodemi, posthumously flebitici, in General, the clinical manifestations of chronic venous insufficiency.
Finally, among the last, but no less important Spa of Acqui: once home applications should remember those under rehabilitation, whether resulting from work-related accidents, automakers or sporting injuries, and medical-aesthetic ones for the body and face.