Parco Termale del Garda Colà

Parco Termale del Garda Colà is one of Italy's most visited and beloved open-air thermal parks, located in Colà di Lazise on the eastern shore of Lake Garda in the Veneto region, where the natural thermal springs emerging near Italy's largest lake at temperatures up to 37 degrees Celsius have been developed into an extensive outdoor pool complex set within lush subtropical garden landscaping that attracts over 700,000 visitors annually to what is arguably the finest example of the Italian outdoor thermal park concept, combining the Mediterranean leisure culture of lake-country holidays with the therapeutic comfort of volcanic spring bathing in a garden setting of extraordinary natural beauty. Lake Garda itself, Italy's largest lake and one of Europe's most celebrated natural destinations, provides the backdrop of shimmering blue water framed by the Venetian hills and the dramatic limestone Gardesana cliffs, and the Parco Termale's thermal pools set within the lakeside garden landscape allow visitors to experience the thermal and aquatic pleasure of Italian summer culture in one of the country's most scenically magnificent settings. The sodium thermal spring waters of Colà, emerging from the geothermal system of the Garda moraine and the Po Plain sedimentary basin, fill the park's numerous outdoor pools of varying temperatures in a landscape of palm trees, agapanthus, and subtropical plantings that creates an almost Mediterranean resort atmosphere beside the clear waters of Lake Garda.