Rapolano is frequently visited
hydro-mineral spa situated at 334 meter height in a hill area rich in oak woods.
This village of ancient origin preserves an interesting painting
of the 16th century inside the church of the Fraternity, visit is to be paid to
the picturesque and ancient portal of the "Tintore" of the 13th century and to
the old parish church, wonderful hikes and excursions to the Poggio Capanne; it
is also interesting to visit the castle in Modanella. Tours to Siena,
Montepulciano, Pienza and Chianciano.
It is a popular thermal station with hot sulphureous waters hot,
which partially preserves the medieval town walls. In the neighborhood we suggest to visit
Armaiolo, a picturesque medieval village and Serre di Rapolano with the Palazzo
di Giustizia, restored in Gothic style, and with the ruins of a mighty fortress.
The springs of the Antica Querciolaia and San Giovanni, at
Rapolano are ancient and famous, popular since the fourth and third centuries
before Christ and greatly appreciated by the Republic of Siena during the
fourteenth century. The sulphuric-bicarbonate-calcium waters of the San Giovanni
Thermal Spa delivers 1100 liters a minute at a constant temperature of 39
degrees, and the establishment offers numerous other valuable services making up
and complementing the beneficial properties of the water. Worth noting, the
programs aimed at recuperating a better physical form in seven days:
anti-cellulite cures, weight loss, post-partum, and anti-stress cures. The
programs based on the sulphuric waters are associated with a hypo-caloric diet
and physical activity in the pool, gym and woods. These waters managed to cure
Garibaldi's injuries sustained at Aspromonte.
ANCIENT QUERCIOLAIA - Antica querciolaia Rapolano
Plant managed from the Consortium for the Promotion and the Development of the
Social termalismo, constituted from the commons of Rapolano Terme, Asciano,
Sinalunga, Castelnuovo Berardenga and from the provincial Administration of
Siena. The source that feeds the Terme gushes out to the center of the inner
courtyard of the plant and has an intermittent flow. The waters of the source
that gush to 39-40 degrees C with one medium capacity of 700 liters to the
minute are used for baths, idromassaggi, inhalations, nebulizations, aerosol and mud.
Theraphies and Treatments offered
Physical Rehabilitation Peripheral Vascular Disorders Motor respiratory -
vascular rehabilitation Rhinogenous deafness cures Mud-Baths Bathing Therapy
Inhalation Treatments Massages
Address: via Trieste, 22 - Rapolano Terme - Telephone 0577724091
IDROTHERMAL SOURCES
Hydro-thermal sources (territory of Rapolano) are precious mineral and thermal
waters. The use that has been made of thermal waters of the zone is ancient:
where today it rises the Ancient plant Querciolaia has been recovered the rests
of a bath of imperial age. Studied and analyzed from geographers and naturalists
in XVIII the century, the waters were used rationally in the 1800's with the
construction of thermal plants.
These baths 600 to north of Rapolano moderate are found to you to approximately
m: they catch up from a tree-lined avenue place to the left of via Alessandrini.
Currently the plant is inactive, but the zone is arranged to green with palms,
lecci and siepi of boxwood.
SOURCE OF THE ROMBOLE
The source is found to the north-west of Greenhouses of Rapolano encircled from
high clay cliffs. It appeared without warning in 1814. It gushes to the free
state and it is individualistic from the high for the presence in bottom to goes
them of a driven in cane field. The visit to the source is possible only after a
distance on foot much impegnativo.
RAPOLANO CASCADES
More low to east south of Terme of Saint Giovanni waters they are conveyed
towards a below pit where, passing from a bathtub to the other, they form
evocative cascades and they have covered of limestone all the surrounding land
giving to origin to one only show in its kind.
These sources, than find to north of Rapolano, are remembered since 1676 when
they fed 12 flour mills very. In the 1700's there were realizes two Baths "to
you", a lot attends to you, one for the men and one for the women. Still in
full activity in the second half of XIX the century, today in state of complete
abandonment.
THE MOFETA
The Mofeta is a huge sinking of the ground encircled from a wall. E' place in
the pressed ones of the thermal plant of Saint Giovanni. 60-80 has a diameter of
approximately m and is deep approximately m 6.
The surface of travertino that it
delimits the zone is connected to coves and caverns where carbonic acid is
accumulateed that renders the place asphyxiating.
TERME OF SAINT GIOVANNI terme di San Giovanni
The Terme di San Giovanni or Bagni Marii is found to approximately Km 2 to south
the west of Rapolano. The particularly plentiful waters are indicated in the
cure of the osteo-articolar diseases and the diseases of the respiratory
apparatus. You the following therapies are carried out: baths, mud, inhalations,
aerosol, nebulizzazioni, massages and idromassaggi. Season May-October.
Telephone 0577724030.
TRAVERTINO
The travertino, a cliff that with great plates, between the Gunsmith and
Greenhouses of Rapolano, overlaps to pliocenici lands more antichi. Four are the
plates of travertino that they emerge near Rapolano. Used sin from the Etruscan
age, then it was used for the construction of many Romanesque buildings. To the
end of the 1800's, with the opening of the hollow ones in the zone of
Greenhouses of Rapolano, the extractive activity of the travertino knew a
remarkable development. Currently the productive cycle is efficient and fast
with high professional level
Terme di Rapolano
OPENING: Terme Antica Querciolaia (0577/724091):
from May to November.
Terme di S. Giovanni (0577/724030): from May to October.
KIND OF WATERS Sulphureous water at 39 degrees.
SICKNESS Affections of respiratory system heavy metal intoxications
Gynaecological disorders Rheumatic arthropathies Some skin diseases.
THERAPEUTICS APPLIANCES Baths Inhalations Mudbaths Nebulizer treatment Vaginal
irrigations.
