Chianciano Terme (Siena)
the town of health Spa specialized in liver therapy Chianciano is a spa resort with mineral water enriched with healing elements.

Chianciano is one of the most important Italian spa centres. Its spas are famous from Etruscan time. Its tourist offer is very interesting. In the prestigious Hotels of all cathegories you can spend pleasant stays of relaxation with perfect service and board. The consortium of Hotels C.A.T. Chianciano Pool owns one third of the 15.000 beds of the town which together with services of coaches, guides, restaurants, museums, and through all the structures for leisure time, give to Chianciano the opportunity to overnight all kinds of tourism: individuals, groups, incentives and congresses.

Chianciano is a spa resort with mineral water enriched with healing elements, situated approximately 550 meters above sea level, offers great climate and every advantage for tourists due to its exceptional geographical position. Surrounded by hills with woods of oak, beechwood, ilex and chestnut and due to its mild climate and healthy, pristine environment, Chianciano Terme has completely preserved a considerable quantity of greenery in its spa parks, public gardens, villas and hotels. Today, Chianciano Terme is considered among the finest health resorts in Europe with its water, enormous parks and countless, modern hotels.

Chianciano does not claim miracle cures, but it consistently succeeds in generating well-being in the complete sense of the word ? body, mind and soul.
Well-being that can be conserved and consolidated in those who possess it, well-being that can be reacquired in those who have lost it.

The town
Chianciano is an Etruscan town and offers an inexhaustible richness of art, history, culture, religion and archaeology. It is the ideal place for full-day excursions and pilgrimages; you can comfortably visit the most famous localities of the centre of Italy together with the most interesting religious sites and abbeys. SAN GIMIGNANO, PISA, ORVIETO, TODI, ASSISI, SAN GALGANO Abbey, SANT'ANTIMO Abbey and MONTE OLIVETO MAGGIORE Abbey are only few examples of what you can easily reach sleeping in Chianciano. Also the small towns of the surroundings are very remarkable: Pienza, Montepulciano, Montalcino, Chiusi, Cetona, Bagno Vignoni, San Casciano dei Bagni, which besides the above said richness, offer real treasures of the local oenology and gastronomy.

Chianciano Vecchia or Paese, as is called the ancient town of Chianciano. Its aspect is very different from the modern quarter that has grown all around the Terme. It is situated on a hill and shows part of its medieval town walls and its ancient urban plan. The gate of the town is at the end of Via Dante, where stands Porta Rivellini with its elegant Renaissance structure. Surrounded by hills with woods of oak, beechwood, ilex and chestnut and due to its mild climate and healthy, pristine environment, Chianciano has completely preserved a considerable quantity of greenery in its spa parks, public gardens, villas and hotels. Situated approximately 550 meters above sea level, the health resort of Chianciano offers great climate and every advantage for tourists due to its exceptional geographical position. Today, Chianciano Terme is considered among the finest health resorts in Europe with its water, enormous parks and countless, modern hotels.


Spas

"Acqua Santa"
thermal baths stimulate the bile production in the liver (hydrocholeretic action) and its release through the bile causes the cholecystis contraction (cholecyste-kinetic action), whereas the bile going to the intestine affects the entero-hepatic circle of binary acids.

"Acqua Fucoli"
"Acqua Fucoli" thermal baths increase the bile quantity and flux; they act on the gastroduodenal mucous membrane in an antiphlogistic way and put the diuresis into action.

"Acqua Sillene"
Thanks to their concentration of carbon dioxide, "Acqua Sillene" thermal baths are used in the gaseus carbon bathing-therapy and in the preparation of the Fango Sillene to be placed on the liver region.

"Acqua Santissima" is suitable for respiratory problems caused by pollution and other environmental factors.

"Acqua Sant'Elena" thermal baths contain calcic-alkaline bicarbonate oligomineral water that springs at 13sC and that has two main features: it treats kidneys and the urinary ways as well as it complements successfully to patients' liver affections.

"Montepulciano" thermal baths contain mineral magnesic-calcic bicarbonate salt bromine sulphureous water, mostly reach in carbon dioxide important for an antiseptic, anticatarrhal, antispastic and antiallergic treatment. Montepulciano thermal baths spring out in St. Albino, a hamlet of Montepulciano, just at 3 km from Chianciano Terme. go there