Hotel Terme Millepini
{{short description|Hotel with 40m deep underwater diving pool }}
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| image = Hotel Terme Millepini logo.png
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| location = Montegrotto Terme, Padua, Italy
| address = Via Cataio 42, Montegrotto Terme, Italy 35036
| coordinates = {{coord|45.318966|11.784396|display=inline}}
| opened_date = 1997
| renovation_date = 2013
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| awards = Guinness World Records for Deepest Swimming Pool for Diving
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| ren_architect = Emanuele Boaretto
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| rooms = 100
| website = http://www.millepini.it/
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Hotel Terme Millepini is a four-star hotel in Montegrotto Terme, Padua, Italy. It contains 100 rooms and until 2020 was recognized for having the world's deepest pool, the Y-40, which put it in the Guinness World Records.{{cite web|author1=Olivia Rzadkiewicz|title=Dive into the world's deepest swimming pool at 130ft|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/activityandadventure/11113946/Dive-into-the-worlds-deepest-swimming-pool-at-130ft.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140923041133/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/activityandadventure/11113946/Dive-into-the-worlds-deepest-swimming-pool-at-130ft.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=23 September 2014|work=The Daily Telegraph|accessdate=24 September 2014|date=22 September 2014}} The hotel was first built in 1997 and renovated in 2013.{{cite web|title=Y-40: we are officially a Guinnes World records!|url=http://www.millepini.it/en/immersioni/y-40-guinnes-world-record-pool.htm|publisher=Millepini|accessdate=24 September 2014|archive-date=26 September 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140926015754/http://www.millepini.it/en/immersioni/y-40-guinnes-world-record-pool.htm|url-status=dead}}
Y-40 pool
Y-40 "The Deep Joy" pool first opened on 5 June 2014 and was designed by architect Emanuele Boaretto. It is {{convert|42.15|m|ft|0}} deep, which at the time of opening made it the deepest pool in the world. It contains {{convert|4300|m3|usgal|-3}}
of thermal water kept at a temperature of {{convert|32|-|34|C|F|0}}.{{cite web|author1=Chloe Hamilton|title=Y-40 Deep Joy: This is the world's deepest swimming pool|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/y40-deep-joy-the-worlds-deepest-swimming-pool-9751484.html|work=The Independent|accessdate=24 September 2014|date=23 September 2014}} The pool features underwater caves and a suspended, transparent, underwater tunnel for guests to walk through. It includes platforms at various depths, ranging from {{convert|1.3|m|ft}} to {{convert|12|m|ft}}, before the walls of the pool narrow into a well-like funnel which plunges straight down to {{convert|40|m|ft|0}}. The hotel offers tickets to freedive and scuba dive.{{cite web|title=Y-40 The Deep Joy|url=http://www.y-40.com/en/content/8-discover-y-40|publisher=Y-40|accessdate=24 September 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141028031437/http://www.y-40.com/en/content/8-discover-y-40|archive-date=28 October 2014|url-status=dead}} Italian freediver Umberto Pelizzari first measured the depth before the pool was open.
When it opened on 5 June 2014, it was awarded the "Deepest Swimming Pool for Diving" by the Guinness World Records.{{cite web|title=Deepest swimming pool for diving|url=http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/11000/deepest-swimming-pool-for-diving|publisher=Guinness World Records|accessdate=24 September 2014}} That record was previously held by the Nemo 33 pool in Belgium.
Y-40 now stands as the third deepest swimming pool in the world, exceeded only by Deepspot in Poland, and Deep Dive Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.
Gallery
File:Y-40 Hotel Terme Millepini.jpg|View of the funnel that goes down 40 m
File:Y-40 Tunnel Hotel Terme Millepini.jpg|View from the tunnel that guests can walk through in the pool
See also
References
External links
- [http://www.millepini.it/ Hotel website]
- [http://www.y-40.com Pool website]
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Category:Hotels established in 1997
Category:Underwater diving sites in Italy
Category:Research and development in the United Kingdom