| Tabiano Terme | ||
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| State | Italy | |
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| Region | Emilia Romagna | |
| Territory | Parma | |
| Altitude | 166 m a.s.l. | |
| Inhabitants | 492 (2016 estimate) | |
| Prefix tel | 0524 | |
| POSTAL CODE | 43039 | |
| Time zone | UTC 1 | |
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Tabiano Terme is a center ofEmilia Romagna.
To know
Fraction of Salsomaggiore Terme, Tabiano is a thermal station like the capital from which it is 4 km away.
Background
The history of Tabiano for many centuries coincides with the history of the castle, one of the four built by the Marquises Pallavicino to protect the salt pans of Salsomaggiore, and of the group of houses gathered around the manor. The therapeutic qualities of the waters of Tabiano, unlike those of Salsomaggiore, have been known since ancient times, even if the first to benefit were domestic animals suffering from skin diseases. Towards the end of the eighteenth century men also began to take advantage of the sulphurous waters, apparently thanks to a beggar "with his whole body covered with filthy herpes" who immersed himself in the stinking water (as it was popularly called) and benefited greatly. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, in the Napoleonic era, scientific studies of water began, which highlighted a significant presence of hydrogen sulphide gas, superior to any other sulphurous water in the world. The studies proposed to use the water not only for skin diseases, but also for gynecological disorders, heavy metal intoxication, diabetes and "all those morbid phenomena of spasmodic contraction of the throat and suffocating breathing" (bronchial asthma).
The great development of Tabiano began with the interest in 1837 of the Duchess of Parma Maria Luigia, who bought the land where the source of the Violi stood (now the source of Pergoli), and donated it to the Civic Hospices of Borgo San Donnino (today Fidenza for a bathing establishment to be built there. The first plant, inaugurated in June 1842, was built by Nicola Bettoli, the first court architect and author of the Teatro Regio di Parma. It was a very simple building, with a central body and two symmetrical side wings, and contained 12 bathtubs.The first medical director of the spa was Lorenzo Berzieri, already discoverer of the therapeutic virtues of the waters of Salsomaggiore. Also in 1842, two very important structures for the development of Tabiano and its treatments were inaugurated: a hotel (actually a real ducal residence used by Maria Luigia for treatments and subsequently opened to the public), and a carriage road from Tabiano to Borgo San Donnino.
in 1865 the ownership of the establishment passed to the Pandos brothers, who had already purchased the Albergo Grande (formerly Albergo Ducale di Maria Luigia); the plant was enlarged and inhalation treatments began with steam, gas and irrigation inhalations. In 1872 the carriage road to Salsomaggiore was inaugurated. Meanwhile, some celebrities began to arrive in Tabiano, such as Giuseppe Verdi (who preferred Tabiano to Salso because it was more secluded), Urbano Rattazzi and Giovanni Verga. Verdi, often accompanied not only by Strepponi, but also by the tenor Tamagno, the sopranos Adelina Patti and Teresa Stolz, the librettists Boito and Illica, discovered precisely in Tabiano the musical qualities of a Tabianese girl who sang in the oratory of the Albergo Grande : Dina Barberini, who became a well-known opera singer. In 1885 the ownership of the establishment passed to the Corazza family: wealthy entrepreneurs who five years earlier had bought the castle, at the time almost a ruin, and had renovated it in a neo-medieval style. They also renovated the facade of the factory in 1910 in Art Nouveau style, and bought some hotels.
In 1914 Giacomo Corazza sold the ownership of the baths to a Milanese company; in 1918 it was taken over by the municipality of Milan, who gave it direct management to the Pio Istituto Santa Corona and built, among other things, the aqueduct; finally in 1934 the ownership of the baths passed to the municipality of Salsomaggiore. The municipal administration decided to transform Tabiano into a garden city, with large parks and structures, at the time very lacking, for the entertainment of the curandi: some urban projects were studied including, in 1941, the proposal to modify the whole hamlet in neo-medieval style , thus linking Tabiano with the castle, as a Grazzano Visconti. These projects, however, were not carried out due to the war that came: only the plant was slightly enlarged.
After the war it was decided to decisively modify the structure of the establishment following the principles of rationalist architecture, and in 1959 the present establishment was inaugurated and was named after Emilio Respighi, health director of the thermal baths from 1887 to 1912. Meanwhile another was drilled well of thermal water (Arvè well) because the old source Pergoli had become insufficient to the request.
The opening of the new establishment caused an increase in the number of curandi, which in 1981 reached an all-time high: almost 70,000. In 1998 the Respighi plant was enlarged with a project by the architect Marco Dezzi Bardeschi: a new entrance where the reception and the pediatric / winter ward were placed, which also allowed the spa to be opened all year round. A new well (Arvè 1 bis) was dug a few meters from the Arvè well. In 2000 the Terme di Tabiano became a spa. owned by the municipality of Salsomaggiore Terme. Since 1 November 2008, the Salsomaggiore Spa and the Tabiano Spa form a single joint stock company, whose shares are owned by 66% of the municipality of Salsomaggiore, while the remaining 34% is divided between the Province of Parma. and the Region Emilia Romagna.
How to orient yourself
Tabiano Terme: full screen map.Neighborhoods
The locality of Tabiano Terme is fraction of Salsomaggiore and consists of two nuclei: Tabiano Castello, the part of Tabiano around the castle, and the one below Tabiano Bagni (sometimes referred to as Baths of Tabiano, which is the bud that developed around the Pergoli spring and the thermal establishment.
How to get
By plane
- 1 Parma airport (G. Verdi), Via Emilia - Golese locality, ☎ 39 0521 951511.
- 2 Bologna airport (G.Marconi), Via Triumvirato 84, ☎ 39 051 6479615.
By car
- Tollbooth of Fidenza on the Autostrada del Sole A1
- Tollbooth of Fiorenzuola d'Arda on the A1 Autostrada del Sole
Provincial road 359 FidenzaSalsomaggiore
Provincial road 359 On the train
Station of Salsomaggiore Terme on the line Fidenza - Salsomaggiore
Station of By bus
TEP lines (timetables)
TEP lines (How to get around
What see
- 1 Castle. The large and articulated castle, the result of modifications and extensions over the centuries, develops on an almost rectangular plan, on the steep ridge of the hills near Salsomaggiore Terme; its imposing bulk rises on the rock emerging from the surrounding valleys, at the edge of the wood. In the center stands the main body of the manor, inside which stands the high square-shaped watchtower, which serves as an exceptional vantage point.
- The almost entirely stone facades of the various buildings that make up the castle are almost totally crowned by Ghibelline battlements, which also characterize the ancient entrance tower, in which the two high cracks that once housed the bolts of the drawbridge are still evident. , later replaced by a wooden bridge; the oldest part of the village develops at the margins, inside the thirteenth-century walls at whose corners rise two corner towers with a circular plan. The complex structure of the manor is refined by the numerous terraces and ramparts of the 12th century, transformed into gardens.
- Inside, numerous rooms are enriched with fresco and stucco decorations, especially made in the second half of the nineteenth century on the occasion of the transformation of the castle into an elegant stately home.
- 2 Ancient village of Tabiano Castello. Adjacent to the castle, which rises in an elevated position, is the small stone village born in medieval times; the oldest part is made up of the buildings that rise within the thirteenth-century walls at the foot of the manor; in correspondence with the two eastern edges of the wall there are as many corner towers with a circular plan.
- The ancient stone entrance tower rises close to the escarpment on which the castle stands; characterized by the red brick edge, it is crowned by Ghibelline battlements; the external façade still shows in evidence, on the sides of the pointed arch portal, the two high slits that once housed the bolts of the drawbridge, later replaced by a wooden bridge.
- Inside the walls rise the Watchtower, dating back to the 14th century, incorporated into the Casa della Ragione, and the Casa dell'Agata, whose basement dates back to the Middle Ages.
- Outside there are buildings from different eras; the oldest, of medieval origin, are the Osteria, the Blacksmith's house, the Sarto's house and the Mezzadro's house; more recent are the buildings for agricultural use, including the stables, the barns and the dairy, built mainly at the beginning of the twentieth century, when Carlo Corazza bought new land and renovated the older farmhouses, founding a thriving rural enterprise. At the time the village experienced its period of greatest prosperity and next to the oratory dedicated to Santa Maria, founded in 1904 by Giacomo Corazza, numerous activities arose in addition to those already existing, including a barber, a carpenter, a shoemaker and a tobacconist; after the second world war the agricultural sector went into crisis and the small village depopulated, only to be reborn with the new millennium thanks to the transformation of the entire complex into a hotel.
- 3 Church of Saints Gervasio and Protasio. Outside the village of Tabiano Castello, west of the castle, stands the isolated church dedicated to Saints Gervasio and Protasio, built in its present form in the 16th century in Romanesque style, on the remains of a previous chapel of medieval origin.
- The place of worship, already elevated to a parish in the fourteenth century, was later restored in 1907, when the stone facade of Varone was raised in neo-Romanesque style on a project by the architect Mario Vacca; the portal with the lunette in Carrara marble was made by the sculptor Rossi; finally, the bell tower with the adjacent corner loggia was built in 1950, again in the neo-Romanesque style.
- The interiors are presented in Baroque style; some interesting oil paintings are preserved there: Gervasio and Protasio, made by the Parmesan painter Francesco Pescatori and donated by the Duchess Maria Luigia in 1841, e Last dinner, painted in 1636 by Picelli from Fidentino.
Events and parties
What to do
Shopping
How to have fun
Where to eat
Average prices
- 1 Pizzeria La Fola Cisa, Via delle Terme, 5, ☎ 39 0524 565320.
- 2 Trattoria Gambarato, Via Tabiano, 121, ☎ 39 0524 524156.
Where stay
Average prices
- 1 Hotel Garden, Viale Maria Luigia, 25, ☎ 39 0524 565330. Three stars
- 2 Astoria hotel, Viale Maria Luigia, 3, ☎ 39 0524 565189. Three stars
- 3 Boomerang Hotel, Viale Fidenza, 43, ☎ 39 0524 565228. Three stars
- 4 Hotel Tabiano Cavallino 2005, Viale delleTerme, 13, ☎ 39 0524 565188. Three stars
- 5 Hotel Terme, Viale G.Gandolfi, 3, ☎ 39 0524 565355. Three stars
- 6 [link not working]Maria Luigia Hotel, Via alle Fonti, 6, ☎ 39 0524 565135. Three stars
- 7 Rossini Hotel, Via alle Fonti, 10, ☎ 39 0524 565173. Three stars
High prices
- 8 Pandos hotels, Via alle Fonti, 15, ☎ 39 0524 565276. Four stars
Camping
- 9 Arizona, Via Tabiano, 42 (between Salsomaggiore and Tabiano), ☎ 39 0524 565648.
Safety
Pharmacy
- 3 Cuoghi, Via Tabiano, 63 / A, ☎ 39 0524 565238.
How to keep in touch
Post office
- 4 Italian post, via Respighi 1 (in Tabiano), ☎ 39 0524 565744.
Around
- Parma - One of the major cities of art inEmilia, maintains with great evidence the aspect, elegance and ways of life of a capital, as it was for centuries. The Farnese della Pilotta palace, the Romanesque Cathedral, the Steccata church are some of the monumental emergencies that characterize the city; of great fame his theater, his musical tradition (Giuseppe Verdi), his school of painting (Correggio, Parmigianino), his love for good food (Parma ham, salami, Parmigiano Reggiano, Lambrusco).
- Chiaravalle della Colomba Abbey - In Alseno, not far from the Via Emilia, there is this monastic complex of great importance in the panorama of Cistercian sacred buildings.
- Fidenza - The Cathedral of San Donnino, cathedral of the diocese, is rightfully included in the category of the great Romanesque cathedrals of Emilia, for example those of Parma and of Modena; it boasts an unfinished façade with statues and bas-reliefs by Benedetto Antelami and his school.
- Busseto - It was the capital of Pallavicino state for five hundred years, and retains an urban structure of a certain elegance: the Rocca Pallavicina, the Duomo, the arcaded streets. Its universal fame is however linked to being the homeland of Giuseppe Verdi, who stands out everywhere here.
- Piacenza - Emilian but also a bit Lombard, road and railway junction on the right bank of the Po, preserves a beautiful historic center with considerable monuments - the Town Hall (the Gothic), the Duomo - and an elegant urban layout. It was co-capital of the Duchy of Parma and Piacenza.
- Castell'Arquato - The fortified village and its castle represent one of the best examples of military town planning not only in the Piacenza area. The Castle was built at the behest of the municipality of Piacenza between 1342 and 1349. Inside it is possible to visit a permanent exhibition on medieval life and the history of the fortification. From the top of the main keep you can enjoy a beautiful view of the Piacentini hills and the Bassa.
Itineraries
- Castles of the Duchy of Parma and Piacenza - Scattered over the Parma and Piacenza Apennines, but also present in the plain to guard the natural border of the Po, the numerous castles of the ancient Duchy of Parma and Piacenza characterize the whole area. Originally military bulwarks, many of them have kept the appearance of an inaccessible fortress, many have gradually transformed their war nature into a refined noble residence; all perpetuate over time the atmosphere of adventure, fairytale and legend that has always been linked to castles, many of which tell of the presence of spirits and ghosts.
- Via Francigena - Ancient pilgrimage route, it led the devotees from the countries beyond the Alps to Rome, from where some then continued on to the Holy Land. The itinerary was very popular in medieval times.
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