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HOTEL DUCALE
TABIANO TERME
43030
Salsomaggiore Terme (PARMA) Viale Respighi
3
Telefono 0524/565132
Fax 0524/565150 e-mail:
LOCATION
Tabiano Terme is situated 4 Km. From the Town of Salsomaggiore Terme, not far
from the Emilian Pre-Appenines,
160 m.
above sea level, in a pleasant variety of green valleys and hills, with
medieval castles and ancient remains. Geagraphically
positioned in the centre of Northern Italy, midway from Milan and Bologna,
the Garda Lake and the Ligurian Riviera, Tabiano Terme is linked by bus
and taxi service to Salsomaggiore Terme (4
Km.) and Fidenza (9 Km.), with its network of
rapid and convenient road and railway connections; an easy travelling
distance of 100 and 150 Km.
enables the visitor to reach Milan’s Airports with flights to all Europeans
and International cities.
HOTEL
FACILITIES
Directed by the owners, the Ducale Hotel is situated in an oasis of
peace and quiet, just a few steps from the Thermal Centre with its sulphurous
waters that during the last 160 years have made it a first-rate protagonist
in Italian Thermalism.
90
rooms with balcony and view of the soft green hills, telephone, colour TV. Private
car parking, swimming pool and solarium, large
bar and terrace.
The Ducale
Hotel offers to its guests a choice of the typical Italian cuisine. It is
almost impossible not to encounter the flavour of the Parmesan table, as Parma is the city where
the palate can savour the old and famed tradition of an excellent cuisine.
The
best known masterpieces are undoubtedly Parma
ham and Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese,
but in fact the range of products from Italy’s food valley is much
wider. Recently the EU awarded the DOP
(denomination of protected origin) designation to culatello
di Zibello and the boletus mushroom of Borgo Val di Taro. Also exceptional are the pasta
dishes such as anolini and tortelli di erbette,
stuffed meat dishes, charcuterie renowned for its quality like Felino salame, San
Secondo spalla cotta
(cooked ham made from the shoulder of the pig) and coppa.
Parma’s deep
involvement with food culture can also be confirmed by the presence of many
large food industries known all over the world, together with small, esteemed
producers. The most important wine in the province
of Parma is the famous Lambrusco, produced all over western Emilia, but
that of Parma
is the result of careful choices made by keen vine growers. It is a dark red wine, its taste is sparkling and lightly sour, like a
sweet smelling violet, moderately alcoholic. The slopes of the hills and
foot-hills are geographically suitable to grow quality grapes and
consequently special wines such as Malvasia, the prince of white wines.
HISTORY
AND THERAPEUTIC INDICATIONS OF THE THERMAL
WATERS
The
curative properties of the sulphurous waters of Tabiano
were already known in the XVI century: the local inhabitants used it to cure
skin and parasitary diseases which affected cattle.
Marie Louise, duchess of Parma,
widow of Napoleon I, was greatly interested and charged a medical commission
to analize and closely examine the properties of
the waters and classifie the pathologies that could
be treated. The first thermal establishment rose
in 1841, financed by nobles and wealthy citizens led by the Duchess. Since
then, numerous research projects in collaboration with italian
universities have confirmed their therapeutic effects, principally in case of illnesses of the respiratory ways , othorhinolaryngological forms, skin diseases; a modern
wellness centre completes the range of the thermal treatments. For more
information: www.termeditabiano.it
EXCURSIONS
SALSOMAGGIORE TERME (4 Km)
: owes its success to its natural resource: water. The exploitation of water
to extract salt has ancient origins; the use of thermal water for therapeutic purposes is more recent, but at the beginning of
last century its value was recognized all over Europe.
In the twenties Salsomaggiore assumed the structure
of a typical spa, with wide avenues, parks, big thermal buildings (Berzieri Thermae,
1923) and hotels, in the bright look of the liberty-style. The flowered
gardens, the green, the fashionable manifestations, as well as cinemas, cafès, sport grounds, thermal swimming pools, dancings, elegant shops, offer the guest a really ideal
stay for a quite holiday. In the vicinity of Salsomaggiore : the church
and the old salt-works of Salsominore, testimony of
the old salt factories, a real industry in the XVI century. The Stirone Park and the church of San Nicomede: this zone has a
scientific importance for the fossils of the tertiary and quaternary era,
when the sea covered this area. The church was built in the IX century. The
castles of Tabiano, Scipione
and Bargone ( not opened
to the public): built by the XI century, they underwent all the struggles
between guelphes and ghibellines.
For more information: http://turismo.comune.salsomaggiore-terme.pr.it
FIDENZA (9 Km.) founded by the
Romans, has a splendid Romanesque cathedral with sculptures of Benedetto Antelami.
PARMA (30
Km.) Ancient Roman colony, became in the XVI century capital of
the Duchy. Refined city of culture, it already had an
University in the XII century becoming the most important centre for the
works of artists such as Antelami, Correggio and
Parmigianino. The Cathedral one of the highest expression of
Romanesque architecture; the Baptistery, the large octagon in
pink Verona marble, represents one of the most exceptional examples of the
transition between Romanesque and Gothic art in Italy, with delightful
sculpted decorations by Benedetto Antelami; Teatro
Farnese, situated within the Pilotta
Palace, is a magnificent example of the great theatrical tradition of the
XVII Century, influenced by Palladium; the Pilotta
Palace immense uncompleted building complex, built in order to house the
service facilities of the Farnese court, houses the prestigious library
“Biblioteca Palatina”,
the Galleria Nazionale the Museo Archeologico and the Museo Bodoniano; the Teatro Regio, a
temple to the opera of Verdi, famous for its enthusiastic and demanding
following, is a neoclassical building designed by Nicola Bettoli,
inaugurated in 1829; Parco Ducale, vast green area, is a rare
surviving example of royal park, created in 1561 by the Farnese family; 13 Km from town, the Fondazione Magnani Rocca contains a private collections of about a
hundred paintings, including Carpaccio, Tiziano,
Rubens, Filippo Lippi, Goya, and the modern works
by Guttuso, Carrà, Manzu, De Chirico and Morandi.
COLORNO (47 Km) :
summer residence of the Duchy of Parma , was called “Little Versailles”; of
remarkable interest is the Ducal
Palace with its Park
and the Churc of San Liborio.
SORAGNA (19 Km) :
is a fortress wich was founded in the IX Century,
for a long time feudal domain of the Meli Lupi family, made Princes of the Holy
Roman Empire in 1709, transformed into a wonderful palace with
interesting frescoes, paintings and lacquered furniture. To be mentioned the
Hebraic Museum and Synagogue.
FONTANELLATO (20 Km) :
with its powerful and mighty Fortezza Sanvitale, still surrounded by the original waterfilled moat.
LUOGHI VERDIANI (20 Km) : this is the
place where the great composer Giuseppe Verdi was born and has lived; his
native house is in Roncole, a hamlet of Busseto, were are to be seen the Civic and Verdian Museum in the marvellous Villa Pallavicino and the Giuseppe Verdi Theatre were all
the Verdian works have been represented. Not far
away, is Villa Verdi at S.Agata, wich Verdi built for himself to make his permanent
residence.
SABBIONETA (58 Km) :
it is the ancient capital of a small principality of the Gonzaga
family, near the border of the Duchy of Mantova,
built by Duke Vepasiano Gonzaga
in XVI Century, what will be called later “Little Athens”, with
collations of Greek and Romans statues and bas-relief, the Olimpic Theatre, with decorations of the school of Veronese.
MANTOVA (65 Km) :
a city whose origins date from antiquity, known as the “City of
the Gonzaga “. It conserves important historical
monuments, the famous Ducale Palace, and the Castle of San Giorgio,
with the celebrated “Camera degli Sposi" (weddig chamber)
painted by Mantegna.
CASTELL’ARQUATO (20 Km) :
ancient Roman and medieval centre as a remarkable Romanesque Basilica and the
Museum of the Collegiata. There is a permanent
exhibition of wrought iron and local handicrafts.
PIACENZA (40 Km) :
offers to the visitors the remarkable Piazza Cavalli
(square of the horses) with its gothic Palazzo Comunale
and two imposing equestrian monuments of the Farnesian
period.
CREMONA (60 Km) :
situated on the river Po, preserves
important monuments of the municipal and Renaissance periods: the
Cathedral, il Torrazzo
(the tower), the Baptistry. Special to Cremona is the musical
tradition, expressed for centuries by its composers and from the famous
violin-making school, funded by unsurpassed masters such as Niccolò Amati, Guarneri del Gesù and Antonio Stradivari, whose five masterpieces are
conserved in the Palazzo Comunale.
For info for excursion:
http://www.parmaitaly.com
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PRICES 2009
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Single Room Breakfast Included
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Double Room Breakfast Included
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Full board
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Half Board
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70 €
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110 €
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73 €
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68 €
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Half Board and Full Board 3 Days at least per person
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