Siena, waters' earth healing and beneficent. The thermal resources senesi, almost disseminated by a happy hand, they scatter in way uniform, going to form a tutt’uno with the historical, artistic and naturalistic wealths of the territory. All’estremo oriental edge, the waters sulfurees of Rapolano melt the humors of the overlooking Clays with the echis of the near Valdichiana, among the whiteness of the travertino. To south, the shine of the Val d’Orcia makes to jump the jet of the sources of Bath Vignoni, thermal baths and monument very famous long l’intreccio that, near St. Quirico, it mixes the layouts dell’antica Francigena with the curvonis of the Cassia. To the confluence of the heavens faunistici and naturalistic of the Farma and of the Merse, really where the earth in Siena descends gradually in the Maremmas, the fifteenth-century boundaries of the ancient thermal baths of Petriolo sprout from the gut of the road that climbs among the woods, while to west, next by now to the crags of Volterra and already in sight of the Val of Cecina, among the green and silent forests, the mountains of the hills metalliferes conceal the waters of the Galleraies, small thermal gem in the earth of the blowpipes boraciferi.

The Thermal baths Bagni St. Phillip (Bagni di S. Filippo - Amiata)
Archaeological recoveries already testify the presence of the thermal station in the Roman imperial period. The legend narrates that St. Phillip Bathes you/he/she would be founded by St. Phillip Benzini that he/she lived here from hermit in 1268 and it operated with the waters many miracles. Lawrence the Magnificent one, in 1485, it medicated a painful shoulder and it prepared the first restauration of the Thermal baths. In half the XVIII century waters were studied more approfonditamentes; the field of application was extended by the rheumatic, cutaneous and gynaecological illnesses to the respiratory illnesses.
Waters gush out from five sources of which four are thermal - 52° Cs to the source and one cold for the care idropinica. Alkaline L’acqua sulfurea is particularly suitable for the care of the illnesses of the exchange, osteo-neuro-articular illnesses, illnesses dell’orecchio, nose, throat, respiratory dell’apparato, illnesses of the skin and the veins, for poisonings and alveolar piorrea. The care idropinica Passing -water or Saint - it is suitable for the illnesses dell’intestino and of the liver. In the White Ditch, the lineages allow natural idromassaggi for the rheumatic illnesses and of the skin and to breathe hydrogen for the care of the illnesses of the nose, throat and bronchuses. Dipping the Legs and the hands in the ditch where it flows l’acqua, to have facilitated the circulation of the blood, consume further the callous gibbosities up to make to disappear her. With the muds a care of beauty can be made to the face and the body.

THE THERMAL BATHS OF THE EARTH IN SIENA
cares and therapies