What to see in Salsomaggiore Terme, itinerary of the spa center including the main attractions and places of interest, including Terme Berzieri, Town Hall, Palazzo dei Congressi and Terme Luigi Zoja of the Mazzini Park.
Tourist information
Located in the province of Parma in the hills of the Parma Apennines, Salsomaggiore is a renowned spa resort, appreciated for its bromide-iodine waters, known since the times of the ancient Romans and the Celts, but whose healing properties were discovered in 1839 by the doctor Lorenzo Berzieri. .
The history of the town's thermal development is closely linked to Luigi Corazza, a nineteenth-century person of Parma origin who settled on site to start drilling and building the aqueduct called Re dei Ruscelli, an original source of water supply for the spa industry and hotel in the area.
The center of Salsomaggiore includes important Art Nouveau buildings, including the Terme Berzieri and the halls of the Palazzo dei Congressi, decorated by the painter Galileo Chini.
What see
Of particular interest is the building of the Terme Berzieri, built between 1913 and 1923 to a design by Ugo Giusti, a Florentine architect, where the beneficial therapeutic effects of its waters are exploited.
Other monuments and places to visit are the Palazzo Comunale, dating back to the second half of the fourteenth century, but completely remodeled and transformed into the current forms between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
The Grand Hotel des Thermes, built in 1898 in Art Nouveau style by the architect Luigi Broggi, was enlarged and decorated in a Deco style between 1924 and 1927 by the architect Ugo Giusti and the artist Galileo Chini.
In 1966 it was bought by the Municipality of Salsomaggiore in 1966 and transformed into the Palazzo dei Congressi, after the construction of the Auditorium Europa in 1988, a structure located behind the building.
In the Mazzini Park there is the Luigi Zoja thermal complex, inaugurated in 1968, a large building designed by architects Franco Albini and Franca Helg, located on a three-winged plan and characterized by a large helical-shaped staircase placed inside.
