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.
mercoledì 23 febbraio 2011
sabato 12 febbraio 2011
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.
©2010.2022
Special thanks to the WR community
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.
©2010.2022
Special thanks to the WR community
giovedì 10 febbraio 2011
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.
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.
©2010.2021
Special thanks to the WR community
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.
©2010.2021
Special thanks to the WR community
sabato 16 ottobre 2010
Provincial wellbeing
Long time ago, well before the building of big cities and capitals, there were places inhabited by ancient communities, peoples that were able to deeply relate to the earth and the environment. Those places are at the core of a national and continental identity, and come alive again in the provinces.
In the province traditions are kept alive, new relational ways are built and, mainly people try to have a good way of living. Ancient Romans were well aware of that, in fact, close to the streets and the aqueducts one can easily find traces of ancient thermae, places where it was possible to get purified from bad humours and cured in order to regain strenght and vigour.
There are clear evidences of the existence in ancient times of proper centres to recover the spirit and the body. Thermae, massages, medical muds, oils, ointments and parfumes are integral part of a tradition that has been handed down during the milleniums, and that is being recreated in contemporary society. particularly in the luxury indrustry, with the present-day Spas.
Horatius, Lucretius, and Empearor Adrian are among the connoisseurs of the favourable welcome of the province, that they often praised. Actually, before the birth of Rome there were fitness centres, a crucial idea had passed and was understood by early populations: well and peaceful living is important. This simple concept was transformed during the centuries into its expressions that reflects the changing in society.
Who chooses to live in the province is looking for a deeper and stronger relation with nature, for places where it's possible to train or a simple opern air walk to smell the different nuances of the flowers more than car's smog, where it's possible to find gyms with a view on a field with trees more than buildings, listening to the natural twittering during a massage more than new age music in order to cover honking horns.
That's precisely in the province that the most interesting realities for the cure of the body and of the self are to be found, that's exactly where you want to be if you are interested in the most innovative relaxing techniques developed in the associations, the techniques that make you discover at the rythm of a walk in the mountains the hidden wonders, where learning how to feel good.
Those are the realities that we are going to narrate in this blog, with excursions through the new trends to find again the most ancient traditions.
In the province traditions are kept alive, new relational ways are built and, mainly people try to have a good way of living. Ancient Romans were well aware of that, in fact, close to the streets and the aqueducts one can easily find traces of ancient thermae, places where it was possible to get purified from bad humours and cured in order to regain strenght and vigour.
There are clear evidences of the existence in ancient times of proper centres to recover the spirit and the body. Thermae, massages, medical muds, oils, ointments and parfumes are integral part of a tradition that has been handed down during the milleniums, and that is being recreated in contemporary society. particularly in the luxury indrustry, with the present-day Spas.
Horatius, Lucretius, and Empearor Adrian are among the connoisseurs of the favourable welcome of the province, that they often praised. Actually, before the birth of Rome there were fitness centres, a crucial idea had passed and was understood by early populations: well and peaceful living is important. This simple concept was transformed during the centuries into its expressions that reflects the changing in society.
Who chooses to live in the province is looking for a deeper and stronger relation with nature, for places where it's possible to train or a simple opern air walk to smell the different nuances of the flowers more than car's smog, where it's possible to find gyms with a view on a field with trees more than buildings, listening to the natural twittering during a massage more than new age music in order to cover honking horns.
That's precisely in the province that the most interesting realities for the cure of the body and of the self are to be found, that's exactly where you want to be if you are interested in the most innovative relaxing techniques developed in the associations, the techniques that make you discover at the rythm of a walk in the mountains the hidden wonders, where learning how to feel good.
Those are the realities that we are going to narrate in this blog, with excursions through the new trends to find again the most ancient traditions.
©2010.2022
Special thanks to the WR community
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