Rapolano
Terme (Siena)
Rapolano is frequently visited hydromineral
spa situated at 334 mt height in a hill area rich in oak
woods. This village of ancient origin preserves
an interesting painting of the 16th century inside the church
of the Fraternitr, visit is to be paid to the picturesque
and ancient portal of the "Tintore" of the 13th
century and to the old parish church, wonderful hikes and
excursions to the Poggio Capanne; it is also interesting
to visit the castle in Modanella. Tours to Siena, Montepulciano,
Pienza and Chianciano.
You can find: Cinemas Night-clubs Tennis-courts.
It is a popular thermal station with hot sulphureous waters
hot, which partially preserves the medieval townwalls. In
the neighbourhood we suggest to visit Armaiolo, a picturesque
medieval village and Serre di Rapolano with the Palazzo
di Giustizia, restored in Gothic style, and with the ruins
of a mighty fortress.
The springs of the Antica Querciolaia and
San Giovanni, at Rapolano are ancient and famous, popular
since the fourth and third centuries before Christ and greatly
appreciated by the Republic of Siena during the fourteenth
century. The sulphuric-bicarbonate-calcium waters of the
San Giovanni Thermal Spa delivers 1100 litres a minute at
a constant temperature of 39 degrees, and the establishment
offers numerous other valuable services making up and complementing
the beneficial properties of the water. Worth noting, the
programs aimed at recuperating a better physical form in
seven days: anti-cellulite cures, weight loss, post-partum,
and anti-stress cures. The programs based on the sulphuric
waters are associated with a hypocaloric diet and physical
activity in the pool, gym and woods. These waters managed
to cure Garibaldi's injuries sustained at Aspromonte.
ANCIENT QUERCIOLAIA - Antica
querciolaia Rapolano
Plant managed from the Consortium for the Promotion and
the Development of the Social termalismo, constituted from
the common ones of Rapolano Terme, Asciano, Sinalunga, Castelnuovo
Berardenga and from the provincial Administration of Siena.
The source that feeds the Terme gushes out to the center
of the inner courtyard of the plant and has an intermittent
flow. The waters of the source that gush to 39-40 degrees
C with one medium capacity of 700 liters to the minute are
used for baths, idromassaggi, inhalations, nebulizzazioni,
aerosol and mud.
Theraphies and Treatments offered
Physical Rehabilitation Peripheral Vascular Disorders Motor
respiratory - vascular rehabilitation Rhinogenous deafness
cures Mud-Baths Bathing Therapy Inhalation Treatments Massages
Address: via Trieste, 22 - Rapolano Terme - Telephone 0577724091
IDROTHERMALS SOURCES
idrothermals sources (territory of Rapolano) are precious
mineral and thermal waters. The use that has been made of
thermal waters of the zone is ancient: where today it rises
the Ancient plant Querciolaia has been recovered the rests
of a bath of imperial age. Studied and analyzed from geographers
and naturalists in XVIII the century, the waters were used
rationally in the 1800's with the construction of thermal
plants.
BATHS OF SAINT GIACOMO To PALACANE
These baths 600 to north of Rapolano moderate are found
to you to approximately m: they catch up from a tree-lined
avenue place to the left of via Alessandrini. Currently
the plant is inactive, but the zone is arranged to green
with palms, lecci and siepi of boxwood.
SOURCE OF THE ROMBOLE
The source is found to the north-west of Greenhouses of
Rapolano encircled from high clay cliffs. It appeared without
warning in 1814. It gushes to the free state and it is individualistic
from the high for the presence in bottom to goes them of
a driven in cane field. The visit to the source is possible
only after a distance on foot much impegnativo.
RAPOLANO CASCADES
More low to east south of terme of Saint Giovanni waters
they are convogliate towards a below pit where, passing
from a bathtub to the other, they form evocative cascades
and they have covered of limestone all the surrounding land
giving to origin to one only show in its kind.
FORMER " BATHS " OF RAPOLANO
These sources, than find to north of Rapolano, are remembered
since 1676 when they fed 12 flour mills very. In the 1700's
there were realizes two Baths " to you ", a lot
attends to you, one for the men and one for the women. Still
in full activity in the second half of XIX the century,
today in state of complete abandonment.
THE MOFETA
The Mofeta is a huge sinking of the ground encircled from
a wall. E' place in the pressed ones of the thermal plant
of Saint Giovanni. 60-80 has a diameter of approximately
m and is deep approximately m 6. The surface of travertino
that it delimits the zone is connected to coves and caverns
where carbonic acid is accumulateed that renders the place
asphyxiating.
TERME OF SAINT GIOVANNI terme
di San Giovanni
The Terme di San Giovanni or Bagni Marii is found to approximately
Km 2 to south the west of Rapolano. The particularly plentiful
waters are indicated in the cure of the osteoarticolari
diseases and the diseases of the respiratory apparatus.
You the following therapies are carried out: baths, mud,
inhalations, aerosol, nebulizzazioni, massages and idromassaggi.
Season May-ottobre.Telefono 0577724030.
TRAVERTINO
The travertino, a cliff that with great plates, between
the Gunsmith and Greenhouses of Rapolano, overlaps to pliocenici
lands more antichi. Four are the plates of travertino that
they emerge near Rapolano. Used sin from the Etruscan age,
then it was used for the construction of many Romanesque
buildings. To the end of the 1800's, with the opening of
the hollow ones in the zone of Greenhouses of Rapolano,
the extractive activity of the travertino knew a remarkable
development. Currently the productive cycle is efficient
and fast with high professional level
Terme di Rapolano
53040 - Rapolano Terme (SI) OPENING: Terme Antica Querciolaia
(0577/724091): from May to November
Terme di S. Giovanni (0577/724030): from May to October
KIND OF WATERS Sulphureous water at 39 degrees
SICKNESS Affections of respiratory system heavy metal intoxications
Gynaecological disorders Rheumatic arthropathies Some skin
diseases
THERAPEUTICS APPLIANCES Baths Inhalations Mudbaths Nebulizer
treatment Vaginal irrigations
Best Restaurants trattories in Rapolano
terme: Where to taste the real tuscany cuisine !
TRATTORIA LA PATRIA
address: 12 SB. GARIBALDI
phone: (+39) 0577-724464
RISTORANTE LA SOSTA
address: SUPERSTRADA SIENA BETTOLLE INCROCIO
phone: (+39) 0577-704177
RISTORANTE PIZZERIA S.ROCCO
address: 32 VIA. S. ROCCO
phone: (+39) 0577-704177
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