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{{Infobox CityIT |
img_coa =Abano Terme-Stemma.png|
official_name = Comune di Abano Terme|
region = [[Veneto]] |
province = [[Province of Padua|Padua]] (PD)|
elevation_m = 14|
area_total_km2 = 21|
population_as_of = [[2006]]|
population_total = 19062 |
population_density_km2 = 868|
timezone = [[Central European Time|CET]], [[UTC+1]] |
coordinates = {{coor dms|45|22|0|N|11|47|0|E|region:IT_type:city(19062)}}|
frazioni = Feriole, Giarre, Monterosso, Monteortone |
telephone = 049|
postalcode = 35031|
gentilic = Aponensi or Abanesi |
saint = St. Lawrence|
day = [[August 10]]|
mayor = Andrea Bronzato |
website = [http://www.comune.abanoterme.pd.it/ www.comune.abanoterme.pd.it]|
}}
[[Image:AbanoCampanile.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Tower of St. Lorenzo Cathedral]]
'''Abano Terme''' (known as ''Abano Bagni'' until [[1930]]) is a town and ''[[comune]]'' in the [[province of Padua]], in the [[Veneto]] region, [[Italy]], on the eastern slope of the [[Colli Euganei]]; it is 10 kilometers southwest by rail from [[Padua]]. Abano Terme's population is 19,062 ([[2001]]) (in [[1901]] it was only 4,556).

The town's hot springs and mud baths are the main economical resource. Waters have a temperature of some 80°C.

==History==
The baths were known to the Romans as ''[[Aponus|Aponi]] fons'' or ''Aquae Patavinae''. A description of them is given in a letter of [[Theodoric the Great|Theodoric]], the king of the [[Ostrogoths]]. Some remains of the ancient baths have been discovered (S. Mandruzzato, ''Trattato dei Bagni d'Abano,'' Padua, 1789). An oracle of [[Geryon]] lay near, and the so-called ''sortes Praenestinae'' (C.I.L. i., Berlin, 1863; 1438-1454), small bronze cylinders inscribed, and used as oracles, were perhaps found here in the 16th century.

The baths were destroyed by the Lombards in the 6th century, but they were rebuilt and enlarged when Abano became an autonomous [[medieval comune|comune]] in the 12th century and, again, in the late 14th century. The city was under the [[Republic of Venice]] from 1405 to 1797.

==Main sights==
*The Cathedral ([[Duomo]]) of St. Lawrence. The current edifice was erected in 1780 over a pre-existing church which was allegedly destroyed by [[Cangrande della Scala]]. The bell tower has parts from the 9th/10th and 14th centuries.
*The Montirone Gallery, housing works of [[Il Moretto]], [[Palma the Younger]], [[Guido Reni]], [[Giandomenico Tiepolo]] and others.
*The Sanctuary of the ''Madonna della Salute'' or of Monteortone (built from 1428). It lies on the site where the Madonna appeared to Pietro Falco, healing his wounds. The church is on the Latin cross plan, with a nave and two aisles with three apses decorated by a frieze. It has with a Baroque portal (1667), a noteworthy bell tower, presbytery frescoes portraying the ''Histories of St. Peter'' and ''Virgin'' by [[Jacopo da Montagnana]] (1495) and Palma the Younger's altarpiece depicting ''Christ Crucifixed Between St. Augustine and St. Jerome''.

Outside of the city is the Convent of ''San Daniele'' (11th century). 6 km from the city is also the Abbey of Praglia, founded in the 11th century by Benedictine monks and rebuilt in 1496-1550. The church of the Assunta, with a marble portal from 1548, has a Renaissance style interior. Noteworthy is the four cloister complex.

==References==
{{Wikisource1911Enc|Abano Bagni}}
*''L'Italia da scoprire'', Giorgio Mondadori, 2006.

{{Province of Padua}}

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