Hotel Terme Millepini is a four-star hotel in
Montegrotto Terme
Montegrotto Terme ( vec, Montegròto) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Padua in the Italian region Veneto, located about west of Venice and about southwest of Padua.
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Padua
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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
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The hotel was first built in 1997 and renovated in 2013.
Y-40 pool
Y-40 "The Deep Joy" pool first opened on 5 June 2014 and was designed by architect Emanuele Boaretto. It is deep, which at the time of opening made it the deepest pool in the world. It contains
of thermal water kept at a temperature of .
The pool features underwater caves and a suspended, transparent, underwater tunnel for guests to walk through. It includes platforms at various depths, ranging from to , before the walls of the pool narrow into a well-like funnel which plunges straight down to . The hotel offers tickets to
freedive and
scuba dive
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Italian freediver
Umberto Pelizzari
Umberto Pelizzari (born August 28, 1965) is an Italian freediver, widely considered among the best of all time. Of his era, he is the sole person to have established world records in all the then existing disciplines of freediving.
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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
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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
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Deep Dive Dubai in the
United Arab Emirates
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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
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Blue Abyss
Blue Abyss is a research pool planned for construction in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It will be deep with volume of approximately , making it the world's second deepest pool after the Deep Dive Dubai.
The Blue Abyss pool will be used f ...
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Deepspot
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Deep Dive Dubai
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Nemo 33
References
External links
Hotel websitePool website
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Hotels in Italy
Hotels established in 1997
Hotel Terme Millepini
Underwater diving sites in Italy
Research and development in the United Kingdom
Swimming pools
Swimming venues in Italy
World record holders