Italic Thermae. Sabina. Terme di Cretone.

Among the thermae in the Sabine territory, a true jewel of absolute purity hides within the hills, a refreshment and curative site neighboring the Natural Park riserva del Barco. Crystal clear sulphureous thermo mineral waters that offer Romans, and above all Sabines and foreign tourists with a passion for discovering Italy in all its nuances, a moment of paradisiac wonder. 
Water is freezing   (22-23° Celsius) with natural and constant draining of a stream, a brook. Perfect to tone up and get some refreshment during hot Italian summers. 

The contrast between the freshness of the large and deep swimming pools with artificial water falls, or the large kids swimming pool, and the warmth of the Sabine's stones in the poolside tournaments heated by the sun of the dog days  definetely helps blood circulation and smooths the skin. 

The closest busy street is kilometers away, beyond the parks borders, the stream and the olive tree groves of the first, in chronological terms, Italian PDO extra virgin oil.
The thermal centre combines to the centre for the cures a beauty farm, massage rooms and a cosmetics brand of products made of muds and sulfur waters.

That is  Terme di Cretone , where swimming in a cloud of thermal waters mirroring the blue of the sky, the green of the park and overlooking the Monti Lucretili.  

Not hard to believe that from the close ancient cities of Corniculum, Nomentum, Eretum, Sabine people used to go in search of some refreshment after a long working day or to wash away the summer heat with the kids, sometimes future emperors and kings of Ancient Rome, to the thermae of Cretone, probably a trendy and healing place for the high society of the time.
The healing and cosmetics characteristics of the thermo mineral sulfur waters of Cretone were well known in ancient times, when Sabines bathed in the springs and used the drinkable waters to fight winter diseases as a basis for suffumigation and ointmments. A tradition that has been refashioned over the centuries till reaching a synthesis with the modern cosmetics technologies: a brand of thermal products absolutely elengant to show in the most exclusive summer locations and at the gym to tone up and moisturize the skin. recreating the wonder of natural summer hydro-massage in the bathtub during winter time.

Terme di Cretone are ideal for those who love nature. Composed of two large and deep swimming pools with springboards, aquagym area and a kids swimming pool, grounds for team sports, gym, Spa, medical and cosmetics centre; a small 'piazza' serves as food court, ice-cream and crepes kiosks and 'bazaar' with clothings and delicious oil, wine and food products, and a small bookshop.
 
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Italic thermae, Alto Lazio, Cotilia

Thermal waters largely differ one from the other, having their own specificities,  peculiarities and charachteristics.The most well known are probably the hot or at least tepid waters, where bathing for a relaxing bath or a reinvigorating shower depurative waters for the body and the soul, to drink and to steep in for a wellness cuddle. In the ancient territories of the Sabines, the Osci, and Marsi flow cold, icy, thermal waters, spring lakes producing a mineral water ideal to depurate and keep the balanced intake of mineral salts in the everyday diet. Delicious as a drink, the Cotilia waters were reknowned also in the ancient times for its healthy qualities, perfects in diets and as a main ingredient for creams and ointments. Joining the healthy pelasure of a walk in the bushes, it's possible to appreciate the creams and the packs reinvigorating and depuratives obtained with the muds purifyed in special lake tubs.

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Italic Thermae. Sabina. Acque albule.

Ancient Romans, wherever they went, built roads, works to ease communication, aqueducts and thermae. This is well known to everybody, what is somehow more misterious and undiscovered are the traditions of the Italic peoples living in the peninsula well before the Urbe was condita. Starting from the beginning, myth, history and legend track back to the kidnapping of Sabine Women the very first units of Roman families.
Sabine women were the first mothers. Well, no matter the century or the millenium, mothers in Italy are Mothers. Now, how did the mothers of Romans used to live? And how about the secret of their beauty? 

The few documents, archeological finds, and the not enormous number of historical researches on the subject draw a pale picture of Sabine's everyday life and the enormous assonances with the most advanced urbanistic theories of the Third Millenium are astonishing.

Most probably they used to live in small well-off residential suburbs, in close contact with nature, not overcrowding cities and the urban areas ramified on the territory. They produced olive oil, wine, food and everything could be useful to everyday life. During hot summer months, or during Vacunalia, the rituals dedicated to the goddess of fertility and of the Earth, they went for some refreshment and purification to the thermae.
Presumably, considering that the temperature of Sabine thermal waters is fresh, during summertime thermae were also a meeting point for the families located in the various Sabine cities, even though there was almost a thermal spring close to each urban area.

Perhaps Romans learned in their childhood the benefits of thermal waters and attempted to recreate that feeling of familiarity wherever they went. The healthy habit of Italic peoples, of Romans, of popes and more in general of Italians evolved over the centuries and  ancient gestures are now repeated and updated with the latest relaxing and wellness techniques.

Let's start this tour of the Sabine thermae from the most famous, within the Sabina Tiburtina area, the Acque Albule, literally 'whitish waters', sulphureous hypo-thermal with constant temperature between 23° and 26° Celsius and important curative features. The centre is  composed of a Spa, four swimming pools with springboards for the bravests, gym, beauty farm, medical centre, and a modern four stars hotel with several packages and a variety of offers, perfects also for contemporary Romans and for those who love joining wellbeing with a cultural tour, for instance to the adjacent Villa Adriana or to the other UNESCO's monuments in Tivoli area.

During summertime, and in prefestive days, party animals and nighthowls will find their fun, too, especially in the area of the Via Maremmana and Tiburtina or in the small pools surrounding the thermal centre.

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0Km Cuddles

Cuddles in Italian Provincia are more than just a treat, cuddles are a lifestyle, a deeply rooted tradition and an act of democracy, a show-off recreated in fashionable rituals during the milleniums, in other words, cuddles are intrinsic to Italic and Italian culture. 

In the Provincia gorgeouos extra luxurious centres dedicated to wellness coexist with wonderful places preserved as invaluable natural treasures open to a more general public.

Thermae in the province of Rome are a perfect example: laid in the green hills surrounding the Ethernal city, glorified by ancient Italics, Romans, popes, kings and emperors, higher and lower class men, women and kids, praised in ancient Latin texts and in modern documents of the Ministry of Health keep unchanged their allure renewing year after year relaxing and curative Spas techniques. 

Preserving thermal areas is a long-lasting tradition renewed in the meeting of innovative technologies that can supply a source of democratic wellbeing and, why not? act as an engine to overcome economic crisis. A bit more relaxed, oiled and perfumed with aromas, essences, waters and muds from the Earth.

Thermae and Spas are now rediscovering ancient relaxing techniques, oils and perfumes, focusing on millenial environmental and social values for a 0kms, ethical wellness with a plus, the culture of the origins (re)innovated, merging with the large cruelty free cosmetic industry.

Gestures and rituals, cuddles and moments of joy, small secrets that our ancestors knew very well and that kept alive with that feeling of thanksgiving towards Nature preserved unspoiled the healing strenght and touristic fascination of these invaluable natural treasures.

Oils extracted from hundreds-years-old olive trees and from plants well known in ancient times melt with clays and plants picked all over the world, in a global and not globalizing dialogue of contemporary worlds.

One of the rediscovered traditions is the 0Km wellness. Thermal centres and Spas are carrying out an important research work to find and renew millenial relaxing techniques, potions, creams and ointments that emanate their wonderful unicity especially in the places of production.

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