Today
Acqua San Carlo® 1931: sip Wellness Spring 2025: Acqua San Carlo® 1931 is available in pharmacies and its therapeutic properties find natural efficacy through hydropinic cures within San Carlo Park.
2022
Guided Tours, Fermento Vivenda, the Restaurant The year of the official fresh start is 2022. With the years of the pandemic behind us, San Carlo S.p.A. steps on the gas. Thus begins the production of Fermento Vivenda, a fermented beverage made to an exclusive recipe by Tuscan chef Michele Martinelli. The Restaurant reopens. And in Spring, the guided tours of the park resume, accessible to everyone. The first cultural events are organised in the beautiful amphitheatre. And much more is still to come!
December 14, 2017
Official Inauguration of the new San Carlo Production Centre The restructuring conducted by the new ownership comes to an end: the 5,000 m2 park and the 1,500 m2 plant reopen to the public. The production of Acqua San Carlo starts anew and new perspectives draw into focus, some of them placed in standby because of the impending pandemic.a.
2014
Engineer Eugenio Alphandery and Plant Requalification Florentine engineer Eugenio Alphandery purchases the complex and begins the plant’s requalification, including that of the Park. The restructuring was demanding and would last for three years.
The 1950s
Mineral Water Treatments Given this water’s unique characteristics, the National Health Service also acknowledged its curative properties, and treatments based on Acqua San Carlo have long produced extraordinary results in countless clinical cases.
1952
Production begins The San Carlo Terme plant begins production with the first industrial bottling machines. Acqua San Carlo officially goes on the market.
1939
The imponderables that regulate the phenomena of life, and their introduction into the organic economy through natural oligo-mineral waters … It is essentially the experiments conducted by me with water from the San Carlo® spring (near Apuania – Massa) that I refer to. This water is remarkable for the exceptional poverty of salts it contains and its consequently low electrical conductivity…
1931
Mining concession for San Carlo® Water By ministerial decree dated April 13, 1931, Dr. Nicola Zonder obtained a concession to exploit the San Carlo® spring and, in the same year, established a first spa for hydropinic cures.
Early XX century
Doctor Nicola Zonder and the first studies In the early XX century Dr. Nicola Zonder recognised the virtues and therapeutic properties of this “extraordinary” water, as he defined it. Experimental and clinical studies confirm Zonder’s intuition about the depurative and curative characteristics of Acqua San Carlo.
Mid-XVI century
Bishop of Milan Charles Borromeo and the first mineral water treatments Accounts passed down by way of mouth relate that the Bishop Saint of Milan, Charles Borromeo, passing through Massa and in a precarious state of health, decided to go to San Carlo where he followed a mineral water treatment of Acqua San Carlo that was very beneficial to him.