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MONTECATINI

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 763 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MONTECATINI , two much-frequented See also:

mineral See also:baths of See also:Tuscany, See also:Italy. (1) Montecatini in Val di Cecina, in the See also:province of See also:Pisa, 5 M. W. of See also:Volterra. Pop. (Igor), 5009. The See also:water is saline, with a temperature of 78.8° F. There are See also:copper mines, which have been worked since the 15th See also:century, 1358 ft. above See also:sea-level. (2) Montecatini in Val di Nievole, in the province of See also:Lucca, 7 M. W. by S. of Pistoja, 105 ft. above sea-level. Pop. (1901), 3048 (Bagni di Montecatini); 2856 (Montecatini). The springs, which number ten, are saline, and range in temperature from 82.4° to 86° F.

The water is both drunk and used for bathing by some 40,000 visitors annually, and is exported in bottles. There is also a natural vapour See also:

bath (8o°—95° F.) in the Grotta See also:Giusti (so-called from the satirist Giuseppe Giusti, a native of the See also:place), at Monsummano near by, discovered in 1849. Another attraction of the place is the gardens of Collodi. At the See also:town of Montecatini, on the See also:hill above (951 ft.), the Florentines were defeated by Uguccione della Faggiuola of Pisa in 1315.

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