San PellegrinoTerme

This elegant place of stay and care it is situated among the mountains of the valley Brembana, to 358 ms of altitude. Rich of natural and artistic beauties, it enjoys of a moderate climate and it is note in Italy for the therapeutic effectiveness of his/her waters, you appreciate since the medieval age.

The particular urbanistic order of the center is owed to a series of transformations effected to the beginning of the '900, when to the primitive installation planted with trees avenues and ladylike buildings took over from the unmistakable style liberty, that did of St. Wandering more one of the celebrate "villes of eau" of the Belle Epoque, worldly meeting of the rich entrepreneurial middle class.

Among the most meaningful buildings, the town hall, the establishment of the baths, that for the to bottle of the mineral water, and above all the Grand Hôtel and the ex Casino, today center of cultural demonstrations and congresses.

Here they worked the best signatures of the architecture of the epoch: the engineer Luigi Mazzocchi and the architect Romolo Squadrelli, the blacksmith Alessandro Mazzucotelli, the painter Giovanni Beltrami, the sculptor Michele Vedani.

But besides the tied up buildings to the thermal aspect it needs to remember at least the two eighteenth-century churches, the parish one of S. Wandering (with paintings of Charles Ceresa and Pietro Longhi) and the church of S. Nicola, besides the Museum brembano, rich of paleontological and naturalistic finds.

For its central position, St. Wandering it is good base of departure for excursions on the surrounding mountains or for visits to the ancient suburbs of the valleys Brembana and Taleggio.

Characteristics:

Already in 1452 a town document quotes the source of Aplecchio, that is found awry some actual center of St. Wandering. Since then the testimonies thicken him and, from the XVIII sec., the therapeutic ownerships of the source acquire great notoriety. Although the first establishment has been built in 1848, can be said that the Thermal baths of St. Wandering, risen for impulse of Caesar Mazzoni, they are born with the style liberty and of that artistic temperie they are in Italy one of the happiest demonstrations.

The Casino and the Grand Hôtel (today closed) are in fact the celebration of a new liberty of forms, stylistic synthesis of the elegance, of the vivacity and of the happy-go-lucky joy to live some epoch.

Among the buildings of the Thermal baths it detaches the Tent of the Sources, completed by the Mazzocchi in 1902: an ample parvis of winds arcades in granulated from which is entered to the Room drinks, and decorated in style pompeiano, with the long tub in polished porfido and the fontanelles liberty in marble poles chrome.

This last passed from the 1899 35.000 bottles to the over 5 million 1913 while contemporarily it was beginning the production of the famous one "hydrated magnesia St. Wandering." Today the offer of cares is ample and articulated.

In fact, besides the traditional care hidropinica, from 1992 the exploitation of the rising Life, richer than mineral salts, has given great impulse to balneo and fangoterapia and to the therapies inalatorie, with the aid of a department of diagnosis and care of the deafness.

The centers of respiratory and motor fisiopatologia, endowed with ultramodern diagnostic equipments and therapeuticses, they allow to effect an effective iter riabilitativo.

The possibility of usufruire of aesthetical cares and eudermiche, a gym for fitness, a great park with dance footstep and music to the open one, a cafe, some local ones of meeting, a heated swimming pool and a dense calendar of summer demonstrations make still more pleasant the stay.

Water:
Source St. Wandering. 26 sulfate-bicarbonate-alkaline-earthy °Cs. Rising Life.
Sulfate-bicarbonate-alkaline-earthy.

The therapeutic indications:
Circulatory illnesses, of the liver and of the bilious streets, of the digestive apparatus, of the locomotor apparatus, of the respiratory apparatus, of the urinary apparatus and of the exchange, gynecologica

The thermal cares:
Aerosol, therapeutic baths, nasal showers, muds, hidro massagges, warm-damp inhalations, insufflazioni, nasal irrigations, vaginal irrigations, atomizations, politzer crenoterapico, pulmonary ventilations.

The other cares:
Chinesi therapy, education to the health, respiratory gymnastics, massages, physical therapies.