Categoria: Province of Siena
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Bagno Vignoni – Ancient Tuscan Thermal Baths
“The waving vapors on the surface of the dark water, bubbling here and there, made that complex of houses with simple charm a strange universe out of time, luminous and vaporous, in which bathers of all centuries, Roman togas or Renaissance dresses could have found themselves…” (from the book “Toscanes” by Pierre-Jean Rémy). One of…
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The ancient Abbey in Coneo – Colle Val d’Elsa (Siena)
Don’t know what to see in Tuscany? No problem! Today I take you to a beautiful place, immersed in the Tuscan countryside, precisely in Colle Val d’Elsa (SI).It is very old, but I’ll tell you right now, there is a sore point: it is abandoned. But it is the right place if: This is Badia…
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The parish church of Ponte allo Spino
In the plain below Sovicille, there is the oldest church (perhaps) of the Sienese diocese. Everyone calls it Ponte allo Spino because of the stream of the same name but, in reality, it is the parish church of S. John the Baptist. Like all churches, it stood on important communication routes: the Roman road that…