13 2009 San Pellegrino Terme Art Nouveau Architecture and Universal Exhibitions L’arquitectura Art Nouveau i les exposicions universals Lluïsa Vidal: Painted Like a Man, Disappeared Like a Woman Lluïsa Vidal: va pintar com un home, va desaparèixer com una dona the route 3 © Comune San Pelligrino Terme © Comune San Pelligrino San Pellegrino Terme Dr. Daniele Rota City Council of San Pellegrino Terme
[email protected] ater and Liberty: these In 1885, thanks to the presence of the Palazzolo and Salaroli two words best sum up the establishments, with drinking water and spa baths, San Pellegrino splendour that suddenly came welcomed 2229 tourists, more than the town's total population. to the tiny northern Italian With private and tourism-generated funding, the town of San Pellegrino, in Società delle Terme (Thermal Baths Company), headed by the the Brembana Valley north of lawyer Cesare Mazzoni, launched the architectural and urban Bergamo, in the early 1900s. In transformation of the entire town. This development largely just a few years, it was catapulted from small country town took place in the space of just six years. In this brief period, Wto international tourist attraction. architect Romolo Squadrelli and engineer Luigi Mazzocchi, San Pellegrino's thermal waters had been known for thanks to a forward-thinking plan matured after visits to some time. In 1803, the Pesenti-Licini company had set up Europe's top spa centres, regaled San Pellegrino with some of the first bottling plant and development continued thereafter. the best examples of Italian Art Nouveau, or Liberty. © Comune San Pelligrino Terme © Comune San Pelligrino coupdefouet 13 | 2009 www.artnouveau.eu coupdefouet 13 | 2009 www.artnouveau.eu Stained glass window, River God with ivy and vine leaves, by Giovanni Beltrami, in the lobby of the Casinò Grand Kursaal, or Casinò.