Stpa in the City: a tour of the most beautiful cities in Italy and then one beauty break, relaxation and well-being in special places, with history in the heart. It’s called “experiential wellness”, i.e. relaxation that goes hand in hand with art and leisure. Four addresses in Italy to try, also in the next coming weekends.
Spa in the city: addresses for a spa weekend in the city
Verona, VISTA Palazzo: romantic wellness
VIEW Palazzo Verona, the spa
A few minutes from most famous balcony in the worldthat of Romeo and Juliet, is there the only hotel in the historic center of Verona with an indoor swimming pool, but above all with a very special spa: it rises in a ancient well where legend has it that right Romeo sought death believing that he has lost his beloved Juliet forever.
The love of the beautiful is the heart of VIEW Palazzo Verona, 5 star luxury, part of the Group Lario Hotels of the Passera family. Open all the year, offers 16 suites and a panoramic terrace overlooking the medieval roofs and the hills of Garda. And in the spa, the luxury of Biologique Recherche treatments and of the brand J.and.C, based on silk sericin made in Como.
info: verona.vistapalazzo.com
Appointments in the city: The 4 and 18 February The New Theater opens its most reserved spaces and backstage to the public. Then, host the shows the wait, with Anna Foglietta (February 14-19), e De André, the story (3rd March).
Florence, Helvetia & Bristol: in suspended time
Along the “per aquam” route, parts of the walls still stand Capitoline Baths of Roman Florentia, soul of the spa in travertine marble and led lights by Helvetia & Bristol.
A stone’s throw from Palazzo Strozzi and the Duomo, it boasts the largest wellness space of the center with 540 meters squares where you can get lost in the Calidarium (saunas), Frigidarium and Tepidarium (salt room) in glass, view of the foundations. To finish in the peace of the two Lacus Quietis, pools animated by artist videos. And the “Rebirth massage“, with the brand Five Mondesrewinds time.
info: laspahelvetiabristol. com
Appointments in the city: The exhibition “Caravaggio and the seventeenth century” at the Uffizi. OR “Women protagonists in the twentieth century“, at Palazzo Pitti. And, eagerly awaited, i Måneskin, in concert on March 20th at the Nelson Mandela Forum.
Rome, Anantara Palazzo Naiadi: wellness in great beauty
We have to wait about mid-February for the post-works reopening of the spa Anantara Palazzo Naiadia member of The Leading Hotels of the World, in Republic Square in Rome. An oasis of beauty steeped in history, from the building with still the original elements commissioned by Pope Clement XI in 1705.
The spa stands on the ancient Baths of Diocletian, whose pools and mosaics are visible from the glass floors. Hence the signature treatment “Baths of Diocletian ritual“, 120 minutes of total regeneration and relaxation based on olive oil, honey, salt and medicinal herbs.
info: anantara.com/en/palazzo-naiadi-rome
Appointments in the city: two ongoing exhibitions not to be missed, both running until 26 February. “Pier Paolo Pasolini. Everything is holy. The poetic body” at MAXXI, until 26 February, or “Van Gogh: the great exhibition” at Palazzo Bonaparte until 26 February.
Bari, VIS Urban Suites & SPA: relaxation made in the South
Beauty news from the spa front in the city of the Apulian capital? VIS Urban Suites & SPA, boutique hotel in a Art Nouveau building from 1876, the result of an architectural recovery wanted by two couples of entrepreneur friends with the help of the architect Mauro Lanotte.
The wellness area (also open to outsiders) in the ancient cellars it offers sensory journeys and treatments signed by Gerard’s. And one of 12 suites has a rock-cut plunge pool.
info: www.visurbansuites.com
Appointments in the city: until February 18, at SanGiorgio Arte Gallery, is on stage “From there – Surrealist thought“. But there is also music: at the Teatro Petruzzelli, it arrives Claudius Baglioni with Twelve Notes Only (February 5).
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