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”.