Museo delle Acque of Chianciano Terme
A complete exhibition about Etruscan civilization is available at the Archeological Etruscan Museum of Chianciano Terme, located in a barn of the XIX century.
The exhbition illustres, helped by picturesque locations and short films, the various aspects of Etruscans and shows beautiful objects discovered in the area, exposed
not only for their beauty that they transmit, but also as a incentive to know
Etruscan daily life.
From the banquet to religion, from cult of the death to the sharmed figure of Etruscan woman,
all is in a relaxed and confortable location to give the visitor an exciting journey in the past with these ancient "tuscan people".
www.museoetrusco.it
Art Museum of Chianciano Terme
With its 3000 sqm of exhibition space, The Art Museum of Chianciano Terme transports you from the most important chinese dynasties to contemporary
art, passing through the magnificent engravings of Durer.
Continuing the visit you will meet King Umberto II, immortalised in a big painting coming from
the collection of the Royal House of Savoia.
Il Tiepolo, il Guercino, Munch, Magritte and Napoleon III will enchant you into the world of drawings.
www.museodarte.org
Montepulciano
The Noble wine of Montepulciano and its wine cellars (accesible) give to the renaissance city a added value.
The big street in the middle starts from “Porta del Prato” leads to “Piazza Grande” through various urban stratifications of the city from the Etruscan age (stones to death to the base of Palazzo Bucelli) to the closing of the '500 (Avignonesi, Cocconi, Tarugi, Contucci Palaces) until the baroque episodes of the '600/'700.
Then there is the evocative S.Biagio’s Temple of Antonio da Sangallo il Vecchio (1518-1580), symbol of the city with its imposing construction and its perfect dome.
In Sant’Albino( 3 Km. from Chianciano) there are baths for the inalathories therapies for bronchitises, rhinitises, sinusitides, infiammations of the pharynx and bronchial asthma.
www.termemontepulciano.it
Pienza
The city blooms thanks to
its illustrious citizen Pope Pio II (Enea Silvio Piccolomini) that transforms the village with the aid
of “Il Rossellino”, that structure the village cutting the main way, rich of buildings-symbol,with
secondary ways like “Via del Bacio, dell’Amore o del Balzello, that flow on a panoramic view
of the Val d' Orcia. To visit: the Cathedral, the Communal Palace, the Episcopal Palace and its characteristic shops where the famous Pecorino cheese can be acquired.
www.pienza.info
At 6 km. the visit to the medieval village
of Monticchiello is advised.
San Casciano Bagni
In San Casciano Bagni, at the slopes of the Amiata mount, rises the thermal station “Fonteverde”
with the widest offers’range and the best medical personal of Europe. Three near swimming pools fed by 42 sources,
with infinity of particular spaces for massages, saunas, Turkish baths and two full equipped gymnasiums.
A true spa where a bath in medicinal waters becomes a unique and an irrenounceable experience. The mud-baths
is advised for the arthrosis, arthritis and traumatology.
www.fonteverdespa.com
