Bagni di Lucca

Bagni di Lucca is 28,6 kilometers far from Lucca, that is the Chief Town of the homonymous province to whom the municipality belongs.

Bagni di Lucca has a population of 6.551 inhabitants (Bagnilucchesi o Bagnaioli) and a surface of 164,6 square kilometers thus showing a population density of 39,80 inhabitants per square kilometer. It rises 150 metres above the sea level.

The City Hall is located in Via Umberto I 103, phone ++39 0583 - 809911, fax ++39 0583 - 809937: the E-Mail address is sindaco@comunebagnidilucca.it.

The municipality of Bagni di Lucca had a popolation of 7.336 inhabitants accordingly to the results of the national census made in 1991. After the national census made in 2001 the population was 6.551 inhabitants, thus showing during the years 1991 - 2001 a percentual variation of -10,70% inhabitants.

Bagni di Lucca (Baths of Lucca, formerly Bagno a Corsena) is a commune of Tuscany, Italy, in the Province of Lucca with a population of 6,551.

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 miles below Ponte a Serraglio, is the medieval Ponte della Maddalena (circa 1100), with its lofty central arch. It is also know as 'Ponte del Diavolo'.

The commune is known for its springs which are situated in the valley of the Lima River, a tributary of the Serchio river. The district is known in the early history of Lucca as the Vicaria di Val di Lima. Ponte Serraglio is the principal village of the warm spring area, but there are warm springs and baths also at Villa, Docce Bassi, and Bagno Caldo. 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 the springs 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 36–54°C (98–130°F). In all cases, the springs give off carbonic acid gas and contain lime, magnesium and sodium products.