How I lost two kilos, grew taller and got a takeaway of tips on how to age well.   Jane Egginton visits the unique Lucia Magnani long life clinic with diagnostics, mud treatments and five meals a day as its USP.   Mussolini enjoyed the health giving properties here a century before my stay, along with the pleasures of the decadent Grand Hotel next door which today has a Michelin starred restaurant. Guests of the clinic eat dinner at the hotel, but are giving a prescribed menu

Baia  in a suburb of Naples has ancient underwater  sites predating Pompeii. It is home to a 2000 year old sunken city where the Romans would holiday and entertain.  The underwater Archaeology Park has  amazing well preserved sites including  the Pisoni Villa and the  mosaics of Villa Protiro all surrounded by schools of fish. See the well preserved walls and statues. It is possible to pass through marble bathrooms and reception areas which would have been enjoyed by Roma

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