How Was Abano Terme Built

The town's fabric is overwhelmingly modern hotel architecture: substantial buildings of the 1950s to 1980s, set in their own gardens with pool terraces, laid out along wide tree-lined avenues. It is planned, green and low-density, and quite unlike a historic Veneto town.

The Montirone is the older centre: a small rise over the principal springs, landscaped as a public park in the eighteenth century, with an obelisk of 1825 and the neoclassical Palazzo del Montirone.

The Duomo di San Lorenzo was rebuilt in the twentieth century, but its detached campanile is Romanesque, of the fourteenth century on older foundations, and is the oldest structure in the town.

What is architecturally serious is outside Abano: the Abbey of Praglia at Teolo, a Benedictine complex largely of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries with four cloisters, and the Roman remains at Montegrotto.