BAGNI DI

LUCCA (

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• BATHS

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 Lima, a tributary of the Serchio; and the district is known in the early history of Lucca as the Vicaria di Val di Lima . Ponte Serraglio (16 m . N. of Lucca by rail) is the principal village (pop . 1312), but there are warm springs and baths also at 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 (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 water varies from 98° to 130° Fahr.; in all cases it gives off carbonic acid 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

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