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The spa center was completely rebuilt and reopened in 1991, continuing its role of hotel with style, quality and elegance, like an island in the island, for its completeness and quality of its services. Generally speaking only a few elements can be used everywhere and at any time for therapeutic purposes: water and salt count without doubts to these. The thalassotherapy is specially effective to recover one’s health and is based on the association of the healing action of the sea, the seaweeds and the sea climate. The sea water is a reservoir of living elements, mineral salts and elements low in mineral content, which penetrate through the skin in our body; Grado’s sea water is one of the richest of elements low in mineral content. The thermal centre of Grand Hotel Astoria pumps the sea water about 100 m from the coast; very rich of iodine, phyto and zooplankton, it’s warmed up at 30/35° C and used for the healing thalasso-therapeutical treatments, which have remarkable regenerating properties on the whole body. Moreover, the wonderful panorama, which can be enjoyed from the Centre for Thalassotherapy, the large solarium; the professional and friendly doctors as well as our staff; the splendid rooms of the hotel; these are all basic elements for the relaxation needed to take the highest advantage of the healing benefits of the sea water treatments Hydrotherapy with sea water: Hydrotherapy is able, thanks associating the advantages of massage with the benefits of sea water, to relax muscles, to eliminate spasms, to reduce labor, to soften the connecting tissues, to make them more flexible and so, releasing the articulations, to bring back a wider and painless freedom of movement. The lymphatic draining action of sea water is specially appreciated by persons suffering from heavy and swollen legs, water retention, painful menstruations, dehydrated skin, head ache. The draining of toxins guarantees moreover an anti stress and anti age action as well as a better oxygenation of the tissues. Lymphatic drainage, realized with hydrotherapy with sea water, is specially efficient and can shorten recuperation to a third of the normal period of time in case of traumatic and surgical events. The draining action of hydrotherapy also contributes to melt fat molecules, facilitated by the presence of mineral salts and practicing an anti-cellulite action .The Grand Hotel Astoria was built at the beginning of the 20th. century, when Grado was the Habsburgs’ and Middle European aristocracy’s Summer resort. Treatments include: A full menu of all aesthetic and therapeutic treatments for face and body; thalasso therapy, massage, inhalation, hydrotherapy, balneotherapy, slimming, anti-cellulite, reflex-ology, anti-stress and relaxation.