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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 95 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BAGNI DI

LUCCA (
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Baths of Lucca, formerly Bagno a Corsena)
  , a commune of Tuscany, Italy, in the province of Lucca, containing a number of famous watering-places . Pop . (1901) 13,685 . The springs are situated in the valley of the
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Lima, a tributary of the Serchio; and the
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district is known in the early
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history of Lucca as the Vicaria di Val di Lima . Ponte Serraglio (16 m . N. of Lucca by
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rail) is the
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principal
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village (pop . 1312), but there are warm springs and
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baths also at
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Villa, Docce Bassi, Bagno Caldo, &c . The springs do not seem to have been known to the Romans . Bagno a Corsena is first mentioned in 1284 by Guidone de Corvaia, a Pisan historian (
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Muratori, R.I.S. vol. xxii.) . Fallopius, who gave them credit for the cure of his own deafness, sounded their praises in 1569; and they have been more or less in fashion since . The temperature of the
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water varies from 98° to 130° Fahr.; in all cases it gives off carbonic acid
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gas and contains lime, magnesium and sodium products . In the village of Bagno Caldo there is a hospital constructed largely at the expense of Nicholas Demidoff in 1826 .

In the valley of the Serchio, 3 M. below Ponte a Serraglio, is the

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medieval Ponte del Diavolo (1322) with its lofty central arch .

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