The first thing to do for those arriving in the city of Acqui Terme is a visit to Piazza Bollente. Curative and hot water (74.5 ° C sulfur-bromine and iodine water) springs in the central part of the square from a marble aedicule, built in 1879. Thermal and healing water for respiratory and circulatory treatments and not only. A legend says that newborn babies were brought to the thermal spring to be immersed in it for a very short timet: if they had come alive, they would have been called "sgaientò", that means “burned”.
Piedmont is in Italy's northwest and borders Switzerland and France. True to the meaning of its name (foot of the mountain), Piedmont is a land of mountains. It is surrounded on three sides by the Alps, with the highest peaks and largest glaciers in Italy.
The Province of Alessandria lies in the extreme southeast of Piedmont that has for long been of strategic importance for its connections with Lombardy and Liguria. The topography consists mainly of hills ...