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,
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