Hotel Dei Pini
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Hotel Dei Pini Via Vallicelle 19 Fiuggi Italy |
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Hotel Dei Pini description
If you're in Rome in the spring or from August to November, you can take a wonderful day off and head for the hills south of the city, to the enchanting medieval town of Fiuggi. Originally called Anticoli di Campagna, the obscure conglomerate of stone buildings gained renown as early as the 1300s, when Pope Boniface VIII claimed his kidney stones had been healed by the mineral waters that gushed forth from the nearby Fiuggi spring. Two centuries later they relieved Michelangelo of what he called "the only kind of stone I couldn't love." Soon the miraculous acqua di Fiuggi was being sent in bottles to all of Europe's royalty. Not until the turn of this century did it become fashionable to make pilgrimages to spa towns, and it was around that time that the King of Italy renamed Anticoli in honor of its most celebrated attraction.
Today Fiuggi is a classic Italian hill town, beginning with its layout as two separate towns. Blanketing the slopes at 2500 feet above sea level is the medieval old town, called Fiuggi Città. At its feet is the 20th-century spa town, called Fiuggi Fonte, where you can test the waters for yourself and admire many beautiful façades painted with the delicate Liberty style that was so popular in Italy from 1910 to 1930. The spa building itself is typical of the large, ornate palaces that were erected all over this mineral-rich country to make the hoi polloi feel like the aristocrats who had always ordered their water to go, thank you very much. If you come here now during holidays, or in June and July, you will rub shoulders with many government employees, whose mandatory health benefits include free spa health treatments.
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