Tourism Cervia Municipality

Cervia’s Spa, which  has been boasting a quality certification for about ten years, is one of the most renowned and modern health and wellness establishments in Italy. Open May to December, it offers its visitors and patients a wide range of programmes and therapies under strict medical supervision: a gym with the most modern equipment, a swimming pool with high-salinity “mother-water”, vascular-treatment hydrotherapy pools, solariums for mud-packing sessions, mud-packing rooms and departments, one-person-tub baths, and massages. The new Spa Centre was opened in 1961, next to the outer edge of Milano Marittima’s Pinewood and to the Wildlife Park against a striking landscape fitted with a fitness trail and several kilometre-long jogging, walking and biking paths.

Spa Waters and Muds

Cervia is rich in a precious and unique “mother-water” originating in Cervia’s secular saltpans and known for its beneficial properties ever since the ancient days. It is exactly such “mother-water” which fills the Spa’s big indoor pool. Deep in the Pinewood greenery, it has become an integral part of it thanks to its large glass-doors allowing further bathing in a striking view. Its water has a 6° Baumé salt concentration and is kept at a fixed 34-degree temperature. During their therapeutic sessions, Spa’s customers can benefit from underwater hydromassage supplied by lateral water-jets arranged at different heights. At regular intervals, fresh, room-temperature water rains from the ceiling thus helping vascular-effective gymnastics. The area surrounding the pool is equipped with relaxing multi-positional chairs, chairs, beds and educational aqua-gym films. Bathing times and methods are arranged, scheduled and supervised by a team of doctors and instructors. A smaller pool is also available for treatments under private instructor’s supervision. Use of this pool is reserved to physically self-sufficient persons who can further integrate therapies with massotherapy, aqua-gym and traditional gymnastics.

Water is not the only saltpan product. Another one is a quite unique natural mud  which chemical and biological studies classified as an extremely rare example of “liman” or lagoon mud  originating from the slow sedimentation of such mineral salts as bromine, iodine, magnesium and calcium, and of sea-water organic substances present on the bottom of saltpans’ collecting basins. Once the mud is extracted and mixed to water from saltpans, a thin 40-degree-temperature layer is applied  to the whole body or part of it. As a matter of fact, it is the best treatment for arthrosis, trauma outcomes, rheumatism, and other similar pathologies. By exposing themselves to direct sunlight, walking or simply by laying in the Centre’s solarium terraces, customers can then benefit from the good mud-packing therapeutic effects associated to those of sun raying.

A roomy, bright and modern department is available for inhalation treatments: salt-bromine-iodine water is used to treat many breathing-apparatus diseases. Cervia’s Spa is also a main national reference centre for the treatment of psoriasis and other skin pathologies, thanks to  its special silt and very high-salinity “mother-water” treatments.

Health and Wellness

A wide range of programmes joins traditional therapeutic offers in order to meet with the more and more widespread need for and interest in physical fitness, psychological well-being and beauty. Cervia’s Spa Centre also offers a physiokinesis-therapy department fitted with radar therapy, electrotherapy, ultrasound therapy, laser therapy, and magnetotherapy equipment.Its high-skilled staff can supply manual massages, lymph-drainage massages, group gymnastics, plantar reflexology and aqua-gym sessions thus making body vitality and beauty a whole single unit.

Massages usually follow mudpacking and bathing sessions and usually last 20 to 40 minutes. Such a treatment course  should be undergone once a day for at least 10/12 days. Massages are considered the best therapy in case of rheumatologic and circulation diseases, and in case of beauty flaws,  beside being a relaxing, spirit-regenerating break. Inside the centre, a big cardio-fitness gym with hip technologies, equipment and medical control is available to customers. A wide range of computerised gym machines is available for a most various employment: they can be used to  improve breathing and heart capacity and also to improve fatigue resistance. Besides helping in sport practice, they are also of great help in movement re-education and rehabilitation side by side with traditional spa treatments.

The work and research of cosmetics experts helped create a full line of natural, organic cosmetic products, having a very high content of vegetable extracts and including face, man, hair and body products all aiming at the perfect health-and-beauty combination. Special care and attention was paid to children who besides being  reserved special treatment-departments, are also offered indoor play-spaces and outdoor playgrounds where they can spend their time when not under treatment or while waiting for their relatives. Many are the information and guidance activities run by specialised doctors and addressed to groups sharing common problems. They offer information on the most beneficial lifestyles, or on health matters, but above all on prevention.

opening times
from 2nd May to 10th November
2nd - 2nd June: 7.30 a.m. - 12.10 p.m. / 4.30 - 6.00 p.m.
Swimming pool: 7.30 a.m. / 6.00 p.m.
4th June - 15th September: 6.30 a.m. - 1.10 p.m. / 4.30 - 6.30 p.m.
Swimming pool: 6.30 a.m. / 6.30 p.m.
16th September - 10th November: 7.30 a.m. - 12.00 / 4.00 - 6.10 p.m.
Swimming pool: 7.30 a.m. - 6.10 p.m.

3rd June - 16th September: open on Sundays 8.30 a.m. - 12.00 for visits, admission requests and reservations.