Terme di Salice

Terme di Salice—Salice Terme—in the Oltrepò Pavese wine region of Lombardy, Italy, is one of the most historically significant iodine-saline thermal resorts in northern Italy, where the geological formations beneath the Apennine foothills between Pavia and Voghera produce spring waters of exceptional iodine and sodium chloride mineral richness that have been valued within the thermal tradition since the nineteenth century, when Italian thermal culture flourished around iodine-bearing spring water. The iodine and saline mineral combination—with sodium chloride lending the water a deeply warming, enveloping character—has made Salice Terme one of the most respected thermal facilities in Lombardy. The wine country setting in the Oltrepò Pavese adds the agricultural cultural richness of Lombard wine tradition to a thermal spa experience of considerable historical significance.