Terme Preistoriche
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- Location
- Montegrotto Terme, Veneto, Italy
- Water type
- bicarbonate
- Temperature
- 38 °C
- pH
- 8
Water profile
Soothing — neither hot nor cold, perfect balance.
Loaded with major ions — the essential minerals (Ca, Mg).
Soft water — natural, classic buoyancy.
Terme Preistoriche in Montegrotto Terme is part of Italy's most extensive thermal complex in the Euganean Hills (Colli Euganei), where hyperthermal volcanic waters emerging at up to 87°C have been in continuous use since Prehistoric times—evidence of Bronze Age bathing installations discovered during archaeological excavations gives the 'Preistoriche' thermal its evocative name. The sulphurous sodium-chloride-bromine waters of the Euganean spa basin, channeled into fangotherapy and balneotherapy treatments, place the Euganean Hills among Europe's most renowned thermal districts within a long tradition. The surrounding volcanic landscape, Petrarch's house in nearby Arquà Petrarca, and the Palladian villas of the Padovana countryside embed this prehistoric thermal tradition in one of northeastern Italy's richest cultural and natural environments.