Bagno Vignoni
Bagno Vignoni is a thermal village located in the Val d'Orcia Artistic, Natural and Cultural Park added to the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites because of the excellent preservation of the landscape which inspired so many Renaissance artists.
The village, known since the Roman age for its thermal water curative virtues, has developed in the Middle Ages with the Tintinnano family domination first, then with the Salimbeni Family domination and finally it has been taken under the protectorate of the city of Siena.
Despite wars and ravages, Bagno Vignoni has preserved quite unchanged so that visitors can immerse today in the same scenery admired by Saint Catherine of Siena, Lorenzo di Medici, called The Magnificentand Pope Enea Silvio Piccolomini who restored to health by Bagno Vignoni’s thermal waters rich in sodium chloride, calcium and iron carbonates and magnesium and sodium sulphates.
In the center of the village there is the famous basin that shape the contours of a unique square in the world where from 2000 years the hot thermal water gushes at a temperature of 49° from a depth of 1000 meters. Down the town valley the same spring also feeds five ancient water mills carved in the rock which have been restored in 1999.