








The carbonic-sulphurous springs that flow from Lakes Regina and Colonnelle have had the same name since ancient times: Acque Albule.
The springs were often mentioned by Latin writers and praised for their therapeutic and healing virtues. Pliny the Elder once said: “The soldiers wounded in combat were led to Acque Albule as the best place for cure, from which they returned cured” (Hist. Lib XXXI, 6); and Archigene da Apamea, a doctor of great fame who lived under Emperor Traianus, exalted the quality of the sulphurous water, emphasizing its efficacy in curing stomach diseases and for treating sores and ulcers.