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You mustn’t miss a visit to the baths of the Bagno Grande, the old wash houses located at the foot of the village, once the meeting point for washer women who exchanged gossip and country anecdotes to the sound of the washing of clothes. Here you will get a glimpse of village life where even today, amidst the vapors of the hot springs, small vegetable gardens are tended by the villagers. It is also the site of the ancient Clausine springs of the Roman imperial era , where poets and emperors came to regenerate their limbs, immersing themselves in hot water gushing from the earth.

With only a 30 to 40 minute drive, you can reach other splendid Tuscan and Umbrian hill towns and villages famed for their art, architecture and wine production, including Montepulciano, Pienza, Montalcino,Orvieto and Cortona. Florence, Siena,  Perugia and Rome can be reached in 90 minutes by train or car.

The complex is just 1 km from the hotel and you can avail yourself of the spa facilities with a discount on entrance and treatments like massages, sauna and “remise en forme” programm.

A walk or a mountain bike tour on the gravel roads which branch out in different directions from the center of San Casciano  can provide an opportunity for healthy exercise in the varied landscape of the Tuscan countryside. You will find views of unspoiled nature with its tapestry of luxuriant woods interspersed with rough pastures and the typical ‘crete’ of the Sienese territory.