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sages with salt, stone or olive oil (€17 per 30 minutes) and so on. A day ticket for the
thermal pool costs €12/15 on weekdays/weekends.
Sorgente La Cova
(Viale Casino Municipale 84) It might appear to be a simple drinking fountain spouting out of
an old stone roadside wall, but this natural sorgente (spring) a few doors down from the
riverside casino in Ponte a Serraglio, is believed to be the cure of all ills. Its water, fab-
ulously, is hot. Park up like a local and wash your hands in it, bathe tired feet in it, drink
it, bottle it.
SPRING
Eating
Circolo dei Forestieri
( 05 838 60 38; Piazza Jean Varraud 10; meals €20; lunch & dinner Tue-Sun) Quell hunger
pangs at the former home of the Foreigners' Club, an elegant belle Epoque building on the
river side of Viale Umberto I, southeast of the casino. Its grand dining room, chandeliers
et al, provides a splendid setting in which to enjoy good-value Tuscan cuisine.
TUSCAN
Information
Tourist office (
05 8380 5745; www.comunebagnidilucca.it ; Viale Umberto I 93;
10am-1pm Mon &
Wed-Sat)
Getting There & Away
TRAIN
Regional train services:
Lucca (€3.10, 30 minutes, seven daily)
Pisa (€4.10, 1¼ hours, five daily)
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Carrara
POP 65,600
 
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