Levico Terme

Italian

Along the Valsugana valley rises the old town of Levico Terme, about 20 kilometres from the city of Trento. The city lying across the Rio Maggiore, it spreads from the shores of its lake to the slopes of Fronte mountain.

Fronte Mountain is for the city of great importance, because it is from this mountain, at 1500 metres at sea level, that the two wellsprings flow, of which the thermal waters are the main characteristic of the city itself.

Levico Terme is a well known established thermal resort. The water’s beneficial properties are classified as “weak” water and “strong” water. The following distinction indicates a major or minor content of minerals, mainly iron and arsenic. These waters flow within caves. The “Strong” flows in a cave dug in the middle-ages, while the “Weak” from a cave 100 metres underneath the other.

During the brightest time of the Habsburg Empire the city was highly praised and it had its highest award from the reigning royal family. Right from the eighteenth century some scientific publications were talking about Levico’s water properties, in the 1860 was established the “Societa’ Balneare” and with it, the first Levico spa. During the first world war the main spa building was destroyed, later it was rebuilt following the same liberty style architectural details. The structure still preserves gardens full of colorful plants. The inner city center maintains an elegant and refined outlook. It’s lake, with its majestic blue-green colors, enhances the city’s harmonious feeling of a unique place.

The shape of the lake recalls a Norwegian Fjord and it is endowed with two bathhouses and with a wide wild beach. In addition to the lake, where you can swim, fish or go for a boat trip, Levico Terme has a renowned park. The park is the biggest in Trento’s province, and holds a variety of 76 species of trees and many sorts of plants. In this place you can easily go for a pleasant stroll.

Right above, at 1500 metres of height, you get to the Panarotta 2002 ski facilities.This place, at hand from Levico Terme, is called the eastern door of the Lagorai mountain range. This alpine range is geographically situated among the Valsugana valley, the Fiemme valley, the Cembra valley and the Primiero and Vanoi valleys.