The Hotel Settequerce, next to the open air spas in San Casciano dei Bagni

BAGNO DELLA FICONCELLA

It has always been the main spring in the thermal resort. In 1583 Schiavetti wrote about it: ... These waters are really wonderful and so famous that people beyond the mountains come, and I dare say that if these waters would be run as they are worth, one could say that neither in Italy, nor probably in all Europe, would it be possible to find similar waters. This spring, together with Santa Maria and San Giorgio springs is part of the biggest structure in San Casciano and was enriched by the Grand Duchy Ferdinando I that commissioned the building of the porch that still decorates the structure.

BAGNO GRANDE

It is called like this because of its whirlpool, because of its water springing with thousands of jets and its bubbles coming to the surface. It is a spring of clear and limpid water that is extremely hot, as one can easily feel by the touch, which is the most important judge of qualities. (Ghezzi, 1617).
As the name indicates it is the most abundant of the 43 springs belonging to the thermal resort.
Until the half of the 19th century it was decorated by a beautiful porch and had proper rooms where a large number of therapies connected to the many properties of waters could be practised.
Water fell into the basin from the mouths of two lion heads carved on one of the walls.

BAGNO BOSSOLO

It was also called "Bagno Bosso" or "Buxo" in ancient times and it is near the "Bagno Grande". It has the warmest water in San Casciano; Ghezzi says about it ... it is a liquid that can be called "angelic" from any side you may consider it. It is still decorated by its porch, but the Apollo statue from which water used to fall has disappeared. The main property of this water was the treatment of burns: if one immerged the burned skin, the effectiveness of the spring was so high that there was no scar left.

DOCCIA DELLA TESTA

It was one of the most famous and visited springs in San Casciano. Complicated showers were practised on various parts of the body inside these structures. Before having showers patients had to shave their hair off to put some special powders directly on their heads. Applications lasted differently as they finished when patients felt some warmth inside their heads. As the treatment went on water felt stronger and stronger: the height from where water felt was raised, because the effectiveness of the treatment was proportional to the strength of the water beating on heads.

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