Galvanina

The snow and rains that fall copiously on the Northern Apennine Mountains follow a long path through deep rocks and uncontaminated underground channels, on a slow but steady journey of over two years, until Galvanina Mineral Water flows pure and clear from the summit of San Lorenzo Monte near Rimini, a hill known locally as "Paradise".

Galvanina is one of Italy's oldest springs of Natural Mineral Water. The nearby city of Rimini, founded as a Roman colony in 268 BC, was right from the outset one of the Romans' most important cities in the whole of northern Italy. The interest of the Romans for this spring and its therapeutic waters is confirmed by the archeological discoveries made during modern excavations for the collection tunnels used to gather Galvanina Mineral Water.

Galvanina first bottled its water early in the 20th century, using glass bottles sold mainly to a limited circle of local aristocratic families. Since then more and more consumers have come to appreciate Galvanina Mineral Water for its beneficial digestive properties. Year by year the area of sales grew, until the water was distributed throughout Italy. By 1989 Galvanina Mineral Water had reached every continent of the world.

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Galvanina Museum 
The exhibits of the museum give precious scientific documentation to help reconstruct the history of the spring and the formation of the terrain from which Galvanina Mineral Water flows.

The museum has fascinating formations of limestone and Milazzian sand deposits, with fossil shells from the Quaternary period and artifacts found during excavation work and restoration of the ancient Roman spring, including ornamental vases, terracotta pipes, a fine sculpted Roman head from the period of Caesar Augustus (1st century BC) and decorated Renaissance ledges.

A particularly prominent exhibit is the 16th-century coat-of-arms carved in compacted sandstone, now used as the Galvanina emblem.   During restoration of the old Renaissance fountain, which suggest that the site was once occupied by an Ancient Roman Spring. Galvanina is still famous in Italy for having made accessible an extraordinary subterranean panorama of rocks, channels, crevices and watercourses through which Galvanina Mineral Water has flowed deeply for countless millennia.

The spring is located on the crest of the "Paradise" hill (350 meters or about 1148 feet above sea level), in the heart of Italy and close to San Marino, the world's oldest republic, and Rimini, founded by the Romans and now a famous holiday resort.