Terme Borrini
- Location
- Salsomaggiore Terme, Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
- Water type
- thermal
- Temperature
- 40 °C
- pH
- 7.3
Water profile
Relaxing — deep, immediate muscle release.
Rich in trace elements — gentle on the skin.
Soft water — natural, classic buoyancy.
In Monticelli Terme, near Parma, it all began by chance in 1924, when Italo Borrini, a local landowner, struck pressurised saltwater while digging an irrigation well 64 metres deep. After securing a government concession, he opened a temporary facility before starting construction of the permanent building in 1926, inaugurated on 15 May 1927.
The site's history is also marked by tragedy: months after opening, a gas explosion during a drilling operation claimed the life of Achille Borrini, the founder's son, who died helping injured workers to safety. The Liberty-style building, with its symmetrical H-shaped plan, today draws on two types of water from its seven remaining active wells: a salt-bromo-iodic water with salinity three times that of seawater, and a sulfurous water.