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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 95 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LUCCA (See also:Baths of Lucca, formerly Bagno a Corsena)  , a See also:commune of See also:Tuscany, See also:Italy, in the See also:province of See also:Lucca, containing a number of famous watering-places . Pop . (1901) 13,685 . The springs are situated in the valley of the See also:Lima, a tributary of the Serchio; and the See also:district is known in the See also:early See also:history of Lucca as the Vicaria di Val di Lima . See also:Ponte Serraglio (16 m . N. of Lucca by See also:rail) is the See also:principal See also:village (pop . 1312), but there are warm springs and See also:baths also at See also:Villa, Docce See also:Bassi, Bagno Caldo, &c . The springs do not seem to have been known to the See also:Romans . Bagno a Corsena is first mentioned in 1284 by Guidone de Corvaia, a See also:Pisan historian (See also:Muratori, R.I.S. vol. xxii.) . See also:Fallopius, who gave them See also:credit for the cure of his own deafness, sounded their praises in 1569; and they have been more or less in See also:fashion since . The temperature of the See also:water varies from 98° to 130° Fahr.; in all cases it gives off carbonic See also:acid See also:gas and contains See also:lime, See also:magnesium and See also:sodium products . In the village of Bagno Caldo there is a See also:hospital constructed largely at the expense of See also:Nicholas Demidoff in 1826 .

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

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

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