Calabria

The Terme Luigiane in Acquappesa (CS), with 173 mg/l of sulphur, have the highest sulphur concentration in water in Italy and the second highest in Europe.

Renato Dulbecco, who won the 1975 Nobel Prize for medicine in Catanzaro, Calabria, was the author of a revolution in the study of viruses and tumour cells.

Pythagoras founded his famous school in Crotone in 530 BC, which became fundamental to the study and development of science and philosophy. The Pythagorean school became the combination and evolution of European, Greek and Arabic knowledge, and is still considered one of the cornerstones at the origin of what is known as Traditional Mediterranean Medicine.