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Thermal
baths
Let us start
by remembering an ancient saying: "from water comes
health". Already known by the Etruscans, the baths
of Tuscia have demonstrated over the centuries the regenerating
virtues of sulphurous water. There are charming yet disturbing
views. It's maybe that feeling of mystery, of remoteness
that you experience when you let yourself be caressed
and purified by the water running all over you under the
ancient lukewarm waterfalls and you release your mind
from the hectic madness of daily life. According to the
legend, Saturnia was the first town ever
built in our peninsula. The origin is mysterious, and
the legend, in the high middle ages, with the ever present
fear of the impending year 1000, became richer and richer.
From everywhere magic waters sprang, from smoky and scorching
pools, spreading the smell of sulphur which is the smell
of the devil. The chronicles of the time tell of meetings
of witches and warlocks, charms and sabbath rites: a scenario
nobody could imagine today, visiting this quiet and friendly
village.
Bagno Vignoni appears as a medieval village
beginning and ending in a square of water; a masterpiece
of art, nature and chance; a basin of thermal waters,
releasing fog and steam, surrounded by XIV century walls.
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