Comune: | Montecatini Terme |
Sito internet: | www.termemontecatini.it |
Viale: | Verdi, 71 |
The Tettuccio establishment, known as the bagno nuovo (new baths) from as early as the 14th century, derived its name from the canopy (or tettoia) that covered the spring. The building, designed by architect Gaspero Maria Paoletti, between 1779 and 1781, had a particularly striking rusticated door. In 1916, Florentine architect Ugo Giovannozzi drew up plans to renovate the entire complex. This project, based on the concept of the Roman baths, was for a spa establishment set in leafy grounds planted with Lebanon cedars, palms, sequoias, acacias, laurel trees, wisteria, pines and lime trees, and adorned with impressive colonnades, rostra, exedrae, fountains and large flower-beds bordered by box hedges. The building's main focus was to be a conch-shaped granite fountain, held up by a group of bronze statues of marine figures, whose waters would be collected in a pool with a parapet decorated with seahorses.