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The beneficial gifts of the Nature
Thermal water, therapeutic muds, healing baths

100% natural therapies

Abano and Montegrotto Spas are the largest spa basin in Europe and our hotel is built on the ancient Roman Spas to remind our guests of the thousand-year-old tradition of our hyperthermal salt-bromine-iodine water which springs out from under the ground at about 78° C with its therapeutic properties.

Thanks to the exposition to sun and air, thermal water causes the maturation of mud and makes it an efficient treatment with therapeutic, pain-killing, anti-inflammatory and regenerating properties that were awarded by the European patent.

The maturation process takes place in special tanks located in our Spa Centre and lasts about 4 months. During that period, mud is in constant contact with thermal water which flows at temperatures between 35° and 38° C

Wellness and care at 360°

All our therapeutic protocols are based on a fundamental principle: prevention is the first act of wellbeing. At our Thermal Centre, the Guest is always at the heart of our attention and care, supported by a qualified team of professionals combining expertise in thermal therapies, physiotherapy, and motor rehabilitation.

Our approach is integrated and personalised, designed to consider the Guest in a holistic way, addressing every physical and emotional need.All of this takes place in an elegant, state-of-the-art environment, where technology, comfort, and professionalism come together to ensure a complete and rejuvenating wellness experience.

A 100% natural therapy

Our organic thermal mature mud is like a medicinal drug but better because it has no side effects that can be potentially harmful. It is a natural therapy and, carried out daily, can stimulate the body to react from a metabolic point of view while enhancing its self-healing capacities.

Our spa centre, supplied by our own springs, got the “1st Super” qualification level by the Health Minister, the award recognizes the strict procedure we apply in using water and the respect we have for natural resources.

Anti-inflammatory active ingredients in the Euganean thermal mud

" European Patent No. 1571203 protects and guarantees the presence of numerous active ingredients in thermal mud, naturally produced during the maturing process when implemented correctly. The scientific research carried out by the Centro Studi Termali Pietro d’Abano (Thermal Research Centre), the patent holder, has identified them and demonstrated their effectiveness in the treatment of chronic degenerative and inflammatory diseases, particularly of osteo-articular origin”.

Maturation of the mud

The Italian Ministry of Health has classified our Thermal Centre at Superior Level 1 for thermal mud-balneotherapy. The Hotel Europa is part of the O.T.P network (Permanent Thermal Observatory) at the University of Padua, for controls on the mud maturing process and quality of the mud baths. The mud matures in special vats at our Thermal Center over a period of approximately 3 months, due to constant contact with thermal water and exposure to sunlight, turning into a veritable natural medication, anti-inflammatory and analgesic, without potentially harmful side effects.

This maturation process, which creates the cyanobacteria responsible for the beneficial actions of the mud, obtained a European patent for the therapeutic properties of thermal treatments.

It is actually one of the cyanobacteria isolated for the first time in our mature mud, ETS-05, which produces glycolipids with anti-inflammatory properties and stimulating properties that regenerate cartilage, rendering the mature mud unique.

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THERMAL MUD-BALNEOTHERAPY IS PARTICULARLY INDICATED FOR THE FOLLOWING

  • Osteoarthritis and similar

  • Osteoporosis

  • Periarthritis

  • Rheumatoid arthritis in latent phase

  • Discopathy

  • Spondylitis and spondyloarthritis

  • Extra-articular rheumatisms

  • Fibromyalgia

  • Tendinitis and lumbago of rheumatic origin

THE PHASES OF THE MUD THERAPY

Mud therapy session The mud therapy session is taken every morning, without having breakfast, in the treatment centre on the ground floor. The therapist will apply the mud at a temperature between 38° and 42° C on your back, neck, shoulders, joints, arms and hands.

Thermal bath The cabin is also equipped with a bathtub filled with thermal water where you will immerge yourself to complete the thermal therapy. This treatment lasts about 10 minutes. The thermal water is at about 36 °C and it is usually added with ozone.

Once you come out from the bathtub, the therapist will help to get you dried. Wear your bathrobe and go back to your room or rest in the swimming-pool area as your body has to release the excess heat.

Therapeutic massage We recommend that you complete your mud therapy with a total body massage to regenerate and remove contractures; indeed, the therapist will be able to work on your muscles more intensely and give you more benefits as your muscles have been relaxed by the mud treatment.