Visiting Italy you certainly noticed and also drank San Pellegrino mineral water in a characteristic green bottle with a blue label. Or maybe you found it abroad, because the brand is present all over the world and competes with Evian and Perrier. Not everyone knows, however, that San Pellegrino water comes from the homonymous town where there are also valuable rural sources and for this reason the town is called San Pellegrino Terme.

San Pellegrino Terme is located in Valle Brembana and has medieval origins. It owes its name to the Holy Martyr, the first bishop of Auxere in France in the III Century. As is usually the case, the therapeutic properties of the sources of San Pellegrino were known and appreciated since the 13th century, but it began to bloom at the beginning of the twentieth century when the visit to spa treatments becomes fashionable among the nobles and bourgeois. This favors the construction of many of the buildings that today give the country its characteristic Art Nouveau appearance, typical of the Central European 'villes d'eau'. The most characteristic example of this trend in San Pellegrino is certainly the Grand Hotel, but also the contemporary Palazzo della Fonte and Casino help define the face of the country.

San Pellegrino is an oasis of health not only thanks to the thermal baths and the environment that surrounds it. The green Brembana Valley is marked by undemanding paths that can be traveled on foot, and for which San Pellegrino is an excellent starting point.