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{{Infobox Italian comune
| name                    = Abano Terme
| official_name           = Comune di Abano Terme
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| image_caption           = Tower of Monteortone church
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| coordinates             = {{coord|45|21|37|N|11|47|24|E|region:IT_type:city(19062)|display=inline,title}}
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| region                  = [[Veneto]]
| province                = [[Province of Padua|Padua]] (PD)
| frazioni                = Feriole, Giarre, Monterosso, Monteortone
| mayor_party             = 
| mayor                   = Federico Barbierato
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| area_total_km2          = 21
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| population_total        = 19868
| population_as_of        = 31 August 2021
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| population_demonym      = Aponensi or Abanesi
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| elevation_m             = 14
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| saint                   = St. Lawrence
| day                     = August 10
| postal_code             = 35031
| area_code               = 049
| website                 = {{url|http://www.abanoterme.net}}
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'''Abano Terme''' (known as '''Abano Bagni''' until 1924; [[Venetian language|Venetian]]: ''Àbano'') is a town and ''[[comune]]'' in the [[Province of Padua]], in the [[Veneto]] region, [[Italy]], on the eastern slope of the [[Colli Euganei|Euganean Hills]]; it is {{convert|10|km|mi|0}} southwest by rail from [[Padua]]. Abano Terme's population is 19,062 (2001) (in 1901 it was 4,556).<ref name="EB1911"/>

The town's [[Hot spring|hot springs]] and [[Mud bath|mud baths]] are an important economic resource.<ref name="EB1911"/> The waters have a temperature of about {{convert|80|C|F}}.

==History==
The baths were known to the Romans as ''[[Aponus|Aponi]] fons'' or ''Aquae Patavinae''. A description of them is given in a letter to [[Theodoric the Great|Theodoric]], the king of the [[Ostrogoths]], from [[Cassiodorus]]. 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.<ref name="EB1911">{{EB1911|inline=1|wstitle=Abano Bagni|volume=1|page=7}}</ref>

The baths were destroyed by the [[Lombards]] in the 6th century, but they were rebuilt and enlarged when Abano became an autonomous [[medieval commune|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==
*[[Abano Cathedral]], or 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|Palma il Giovane]], [[Guido Reni]], [[Giandomenico Tiepolo|Giovanni Domenico 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 [[Apse|apses]] decorated by a [[frieze]]. It has with a Baroque portal (1667), a bell tower, presbytery [[Fresco|frescoes]] portraying the ''Histories of St. Peter'' and ''Virgin'' by [[Jacopo da Montagnana]] (1495) and [[Palma il Giovane]]'s altarpiece depicting ''Christ Crucifixed Between St. Augustine and St. Jerome''.

Just outside the city is San Daniele Abbey (11th century). {{Convert|6|km|mi|abbr=on|sp=us}} from the city is also [[Praglia Abbey]], founded in the 11th century by [[Benedictines|Benedictine]] monks and rebuilt in 1496–1550. The abbey church of the Assumption, with a marble portal from 1548, has a [[Renaissance architecture|Renaissance style]] interior.

==People==
* [[Pietro d'Abano]] ({{circa|1257}}{{snd}}1316), Italian physician and philosopher
* [[Matteo Meneghello]] (born 1981), Italian racing driver

==Twin towns==
*{{flagicon|JAP}} [[Shibukawa]], Japan
*{{flagicon|GER}} [[Bad Füssing]], Germany
*{{flagicon|Croatia}} [[Lipik]], Croatia
*{{flagicon|Greece}} [[Kamena Vourla]], Greece

== See also ==
* [[Ex Oratorio del Montirone]]

==References==
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==Sources==
*''L'Italia da scoprire'', Giorgio Mondadori, 2006.

==External links==
{{Collier's poster|Abano Bagni}}
* [http://www.abano.it/en/Default.aspx Abano.it Touristic informations web site]
* [https://termefacile.it/ TermeFacile.it Spa facilities information website]
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