The toponym Abano contains a reference to water both for the presence of the Indo-European root - "ap," and for the association with the god Aponus, which means "without pain," to protect thermal springs in the Paleovenetian and Roman ages. The origins of thermal treatments date back to the 8th century BC C. when the ancient inhabitants of the area went to the nearby sacred lake, which extended into the territory of the current Euganean Spas, to perform rituals linked to the recovery of health and drank therapeutic water from ceramic vessels. According to the legend the same Ercole who, passing through the land of Apono, founded the cult of Gerione, mysterious god, imprisoned in the bowels of the earth, who prophesied the future through a priest or a priestess, able to interpret the prophecies of the god through the thermal waters. After 49 BC a bourgeois upper class was formed of local Romanized peoples, who in imitation of the high courses of Rome gave great importance to the baths favoring the establishment of public baths and thermal establishments completely transforming the sanctuary. The ancient attendance of the baths is documented up to the whole fifth century AD C.

In the Middle Ages, the territory was occupied by the Lombards, Carolingians, and Saxons, who shook the life of these campaigns. The first official documents that offer us information on Abano date back to the 10th century. From the 12th century, the village of Abano developed as a rural center, under the bishop of Padua.

At the beginning of the modern age, the Venetian aristocracy took over the territories confiscated from the rebel Paduan nobles. In the eighteenth century the affirmation of the Enlightenment and of the "encyclopedic" interests for all knowledge and in particular for those connected to nature have made thermalism reconsider by dedicating to it a significant quantity of studies that contributed to rediscover this therapeutic practice that even if it didn't disapire, it was in fact little considered. A building renovation activity started in the Montirone area, rich in natural springs.

After the First World War, the traditional activity related to thermal treatments experienced a formidable development due to the new technological knowledge that allowed the opening of artificial wells near which many thermal establishments were built. In 1926 the private management of thermal resources passed to the system of public concessions, and thanks to this provision considerably increased the number of hotels in Abano. In the second post-war period, a welfare-type health policy developed that allowed the use of thermal therapies to a large public and consequently numerous artificial wells opened and new establishments built.