Edicola e piazza della Bollente (Acqui Terme)

Buildings of historical importance

Edicola e piazza della Bollente (Acqui Terme)

Category: Buildings of historical importance

The Bollente is an elegant octagonal-shaped little temple-building inaugurated in 1879 in the square of the same name. This eclectic structure shows a thermal spring that spurts out sulphureous-salty-bromine-iodic water at a temperature of 74.5 degrees Celsius. Next to the Bollente (Boiling One), one can also see the civic Torre (Tower) built in 1763 on a gate of the city’s ancient boundary wall dating back to the period of Comuni (medieval communes). One local legend tells how the newly-born children of Acqui were taken to the spring of the Bollente to be immersed for a second – whoever survived was nick-named “Sgaiento”, which means “scorched”. Known and used since Roman times, the Bollente spring is still today the most widely used spring in Acqui’s thermal spas.

Information

Piazza della Bollente - 15011 Acqui Terme (Al)
Tel. + 39.0144.322142 - Fax: + 39. 0144.326520
E-mail: iat@acquiterme.it
www.comuneacqui.com