Terme di Monticelli Parma

Terme di Monticelli, in the small thermal village of Monticelli Terme in the Po plain south of Parma, draws on sulfurous springs that have made this quiet Emilian community a traditional thermal destination since the 19th century, drawing visitors from across the region's prosperous agricultural and gastronomic heartland. The naturally hot sulfurous waters are part of a long Italian thermal tradition, in a spa complex that follows the structured programmes of the national thermal culture. The extraordinary gastronomic context of Monticelli's location in the Parma district — surrounded by producers of Parmigiano-Reggiano, Prosciutto di Parma, and Culatello di Zibello, all protected DOP products at the peak of Italian food culture — makes a thermal stay here an unusually pleasurable combination of relaxation and culinary pilgrimage.