A few minutes from Feltre, there is the small village of Seren del Grappa, originally called only Seren, but changed to its current name in memory of the losses suffered in the First World War on the Monte Grappa front.
War routes on Grappa: click here.
Precisely in the 1920s, when hunger and disease had spread in the post-war climate of famine and misery and had forced many to emigrate to Australia or the Americas, the municipality of Seren del Grappa had an aqueduct built which drew the water from a spring outside the town, at the bottom of the Val Scura.
Over time, the town’s doctors, doctors Gesiotto and Alberton, found that those who drank water from the Narcisa Bassa spring had “advantages to their hygienic state and health, even in the case of kidney, lung and urinary tract”, as witnessed in the book “Small story of a great water”, from 2014. Doctor Alberton himself recounts the benefits of this water in “The Soterìa or salvation source: confidences of a doctor”, from 1937. In 1940s, following chemical analyses, it was discovered that the water had an “easily absorbable calcium content, therefore effective in children and adults, healthy and sick”. Subsequently, it was thought to build a spa center and in the 1960s a company was also founded, Serenella, which produced soda, foam, Chinotto and orangeade with the health water. Even today the inhabitants of Seren del Grappa (and not only) take a few steps out of town loaded with empty bottles, to be able to refresh themselves with the health water, whose virtues are still recognized today.
© Editorial Team Marcadoc