Fuentes para el estudio del termalismo minero-medicinal en la Antigüedad

Pliny the younger, Letters, VI, 16.

Admiranda est Baianae amoenitas et circumiectuum: nulla enim Italiae pars tam iucundam praebet prospectum sinus ac maris

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Pliny the Elder indicates the importance of mineral and thermal springs were for humans, and how in some occassions, these springs caused the creation of some urbes because the value of these waters for health. In this case, he includes the examples of some of those cities: Puteolos (Puteoli, Italy), (Aquae) Statiellas (Acqui Terme, Italy) and (Aquae) Sextias (Aix-en-Provence, in France)

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