At an altitude of about 500 m.above sea level, in the green heart of Valle Imagna, only 25 km from the city of Bergamo, surronded by a park of about 130,000 sqm, full of secular flowers and plants, stands Villa delle Ortensie, an elegant aristocratic residence of the late nineteenth century. Wisely restored, the villa conserves the unchanged glamour and suggestion of the ancient times. The favourable climate and the clearness of the air make this place an elect one for all of those, who want to rest and relax.A luxuriant park, provided with modern equipments for open-air sports and entertainments, rich of beauties and precious ancient testimonies, besides being an elegant frame for the villa, makes more pleasant the "life-route", guided trekkings, horse riding and mountainbiking . At guests disposal there are also tennis-courts and a minigolf-court. Villa delle Ortensie has some of the best equipment for facilitation, seminars business conventions etc Thanks for its conferences room which are perfectly equipped. Moreover Villa delle Ortensie is one of the best wellness center where nature and science perfectly match together. Our specialised staff will help you to make your stay relaxable, enjoyable and likable. For the restoration of a total psycho-physique equilibrium, besides a correct way of feeding, it is suggested a sage and guided way through the use of natural methodologies, physical therapies and thermal treatments. One of the advantages that our Wellness center offers is the proximity to the thermal baths S. Omobono. News about the qualities and the excellence of the sulphurous water of these thermal baths have been already recorded in 1772 in a monographs of Dr. Pasta, famous proto-physicist of that time. In 1803 and 1820 the Prof. Maironi Da Ponte speaks with enthusiasm about the qualities of the water. In the 1840 Father Ferriaro made some analysis of the water and described them in a pamphlet. In 1864 G.Garelli in his volume " about

In the Restaurant you will be able to find refined plates made up with food coming from biological and biodynamics cultivations, very important for an effective work of organic depuration, useful to contrast the excess of the oxidative processes and the formation of free radicales. The composition of the menu is based on the corrected use of the alimentary combinations; one of our aims is to address people to a correct way of eating Always with regard to the traditional cuisine,particular attention is dedicated to a tasty and balanced vegetarian diet. The menu is inspired by the best mediterranean tradition, the reachness of flavours are accentuated by the use of biological foods, wisely cooked for an healthy, pleasant and well-balanced diet. The wide salons, obtained in a villa in perfect liberty style, wisely restructured, have a capacity up to 300 places and they can be used also for Wedding Banquets . Villa delle Ortensie is the ideal place for enjoying the most important moment's of our own life: the wide park rich of flowers, lovely architectures, waterfalls and fountains, is the ideal atmosphere for a wonderful photographic service. Moreover you will be able to find a park constructed in order to make your children feel at ease and enjoy themselves, all of that in the maximum safety.

Steam baths and saunas : effective and simple treatments for body detoxification and aesthetical improvement, thanks to the elimination of toxins, fat dissolution, best peripherical skin hydration, that losing its "anaemia" becomes stronger and more elastic. The alternation of the warm vapor to cold water rubbings reactivates the blood circulation and allows a reduction of the cellulitis. Thermal muds : they are made from a mixture of sulphureous mineral water with solid matter (soil and clay). They carry out actions related to the properties of the water. They can be used for problems of the muscle-skeletal apparatus, but also for the plethoras of the liver and the gastroenterinicus apparatus. In aesthetical medicine they can be used in association with seaweeds extracts against cutaneous unaestheticisms, with a reducening action and in order to veiculate localized adipose accumulations

Villa delle Ortensie is a wellness center for "a total remise and form". With the application of the natural principles you will find again the vital energies: a body in brilliant form and a renewed spirit in order to counteract stress and daily routine. Sulphurous thermal waters , massages, natural treatments, flowers of hay, hydro-massages with oligo-elements, aesthetical treatments and a natural medicine centre to the vanguard are waiting for you, for the treatment of medical or aesthetical pathologies, for making you realise the extraordinary powers of natural applications. The treatments of our wellness center include vascular gym for the upper and lower limbs, phlebological passages, hydro-massages, steam baths, massotherapy, shiatsu and plantar reflexology, water-gym, inhalations sittings. Everything is always made under constant control by our specialised medical staff.

The hotel Villa delle Ortensie Gained from a Villa in perfect liberty style, offers at its guests disposal 35 rooms endowed with every comfort: telephone, wire broadcasting, tv color, frigobar, showers, hair dryer and private services . Moreover there are wide spaces at guests disposal in order to satisfy every requirement: a complete fitness center with gymnasium , sauna, swimming pool, solarium. . Outside the enchanting muntains, the fresh, limpid air, perfumed by pines and the essences of flowers. Inside the warm atmosphere of woods, furnitures of other times, precious marbles and carpets; an ancient villa completely restructured for welcoming you with the secrets of an hospitality meant as an art of entertainment. All of these services are offered by the hotels staff,who makes of courtesy and the professionality its standard of work.