Bagno
Vignoni Thermal Baths (Siena)
The town: Bagno Vignoni
It is a little town well set up, like a terrace on the Orcia
Valley, with a panorama of rocks and castles all around.
Here, in its beautiful square, springs out at 60sC waters
rich in sodium chloride, calcium and iron carbonates, high
radioactive calcium, magnesium and sodium sulphates. Even
St. Catherine and Lorenzo dei Medici were healed by these
waters. It is 23 km from Montepulciano.The characteristic
of Bagno Vigoni, besides the thermal waters, is its unchanged
structure. Infact, the main square of this town is not like
it can be imagined in other places, but it is made by boiling
water that flows at 52°.
On the edge of the small town there is a stone culvert where
the hot water runs. You take off your shoes and put your
feet in. After a long hike it is great. The water is very
hot and full of minerals.
The thermal water basin, by the fact, is
in the middle of the of the square, closed on three sides
by the town walls, one metre and a half tall. All around
there are some buildings realised by Bernardo Rossellino
in Pope?s Pio II honour, and the open arcade where S. Caterina
da Siena stopped.
The Therms of Bagni Vignoni - Terme
di Bagno Vignoni
address: 53020 - Bagno Vignoni (SI) phone (+39) 0577/887365
OPENING: From June to September
KIND OF WATERS Bicarbonate - sulphate - alkaline - terrene
light radioactive water
SICKNESS Affections of the upper respiratory system Effects
of fractures Gynaecological ailments Rheumatic arthropathies
THERAPEUTICS APPLIANCES Baths Inhalations Irrigations Mudbaths
Directions:
By car: The Hotel can be reached by the
A1 Motorway, Florence Certosa exit. Then proceeding along
the Superway Florence-Siena, exit Siena South. Take the
Strada Statale.S.2 Cassia up to the cross-road for Castiglione
d*Orcia (SS 323). Then continuing for Strada Statale Castiglione
d*Orcia.
By plane: The Hotel is located about 160
km from the Peretola Florence Airport, about 200 km from
the Leonardo da Vinci Fiumicino Airport and about 160 km
from the Galileo Galilei Pisa Airport.
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