Bagni di Lucca

Bagni di Lucca is one of Tuscany's most historically distinguished thermal resorts, tucked into the lush Lima Valley in the Province of Lucca in northern Tuscany. Its thermal springs, classified among the mildly radioactive radon waters, have attracted visitors for over a millennium and counted among their devotees luminaries such as Montaigne, Byron, Shelley, Heine, and Princess Elisa Bonaparte. The spa complex, with its 19th-century pavilions and reading rooms, carries the refined atmosphere of the Romantic era's great European health resorts. Set against forested Apennine hillsides with the river Lima rushing through the village, Bagni di Lucca is an enchanting and historically rich thermal retreat.