This certainly is not your usual hotel swimming pool: Y-40 Deep Joy, at the Hotel Terme Millepini, in Padua, Italy, is the world’s deepest pool, surpassing the Nemo 33 in Brussels, Belgium. With an astonishing depth of 40 meters, the equivalent of a 12-story building, it is quite a breathtaking destination.
Designed by Emanuele Boaretto, Y-40 contains 4300 mc of thermal water at 32-34°C, ensuring a really comfortable swim. Non-swimmers can enjoy the experience through a unique transparent tunnel, suspended underwater, allowing onlookers to soak in magnificent underwater views. More active participants can go to the sunbathing deck with loungers on the roof, or take part in activities such as scuba diving, free diving, aqua fitness, watsu, hydro-kinesi therapy, and exercises for pregnant women.
Opened since June of this year, the pool has been inaugurated by Italian free divers Umberto Pelizzari, and Enzo Maiorca, with freediver Ilaria Molinari dressing up as a mermaid for greater effect.
Hotel Terme Millepini is part of the Villa Duodo region and boasts 100 beautiful rooms overlooking the great landscape near the city of Padua, with its great thermal pools.
