Terme di Stabio — Ticino

Terme di Stabio is a thermal spa in the municipality of Stabio in the canton of Ticino, the Italian-speaking canton of Switzerland, set in the Mendrisiotto region at the southernmost tip of Switzerland just 15 kilometres from the Italian city of Varese and 25 kilometres from Lugano — a location that makes it one of the most internationally connected spa facilities in Europe, accessible from two countries in two languages. Its bicarbonate spring waters from the Insubric geological formations of the southern Alps are used in balneotherapy for musculoskeletal and dermatological conditions in facilities that combine Swiss standards of quality with the Italian-language culture of Ticino. The Ticino canton — sometimes called the most Italian part of Switzerland — offers a genuinely Mediterranean atmosphere of palm-lined lakeshores, campanile bell towers, and risotto and polenta cuisine that makes a thermal visit to Terme di Stabio feel simultaneously Swiss and Italian in a uniquely Ticinese synthesis.