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schedule any activity they desire and also offer custom excursions, including wine tours, culinary tours and walking adventures. Spa Relax at the luxurious 43,000 square foot, award-winning Verdura Spa offers a menu of treatments, massages, health and wellness classes, cosmetic services, sauna access and fitness opportunities. The calm, pristine space centers around an open-air courtyard with a hammam (a Turkish bath), thalassotherapy pools, saunas, a gym and a terrace spa bar, which serves healthy drinks and snacks. Treatments are focused on four key areas: anti-aging, detoxifying, fitness and thalassotherapy, which utilizes seawater and sea products rich in beneficial elements and nutrients. The Verdura Spa uses organic local ingredients in their treatments, including cold-pressed plant oils, seaweed mud, marine salt and fresh botanical extracts. There are 12 different types of massages available including Sicilian Aromatherapy, lymphatic massages, bio-energetic massages, shiatsu, reflexology, Swedish massages and 30-minute head or foot massages. The spa offers a large variety of facial and body treatments; some use organic raw natural materials and plant products like the olive seed scrub, some focus on the use of anti-aging formulas, some use biophysics and bio-diagnostics to give skin more energy and some use marine minerals, harnessing the properties of seawater in its various forms. Three total body programs are also available at Verdura Spa: Energy, which features a Foot Massage, Aroma Stones Massage and a Sicilian Head Massage; Relaxing, which includes a Relaxing Massaging, 36 ModernLifestyles.tv