Disover this land underground: Caverns and Grottos in Tuscany

Depending on what part of Tuscany you are visiting, there are several spots for you.

The Apuane Alps, in the Lucca and Carrara region, offer the Antro del Corchia (info at: www.antrocorchia.it), the Grotta dell'Onda free to all (info at: www.comune.camaiore.lu.it), the Grotta del Vento (info at: www.grottadelvento.com), the Grotta di Bagni di Lucca (info at: www.termebagnidilucca.it), and the Parco Naturale delle Grotte di Equi (info at: www.comunefivizzano.it).


If you are in Siena or the Val di Chiana Area you have the Parco Archeologico Naturalistico di Belverde (info at: www.comune.cetona.siena.it), the Bottini di Siena (info at: www.comune.siena.it/diana), and the Labirinto di Porsenna (Tel. 0578 227667).

The Valdarno area near Florence offers the Grotta Giusti (info at: www.grottagiustispa.com), and the Grotta Maona (info at: www.grottamaona.it).


The coast and the southern part of Tuscany include the Miniera del Siele (info at: www.abiesealba.com), the Museo delle Miniere di Montecatini Val di Cecina (info at: www.viaggioantico.com), the Museo Minerario di Abbadia San Salvatore (info at: www.terreditoscana.it), the Parco Archeominerario di Montieri (info at: www.parcocollinemetallifere.it), the Parco Archeominerario di San Silvestro (info at: www.parchivaldicornia.it), the Parco Minerario dell'Isola d'Elba (info at: www.parcominelba.it), the Parco Minerario Naturalistico di Gavorrano (info at: www.parcominerario.it), and the Galleria delle Fonti dell'Abbondanza (info at: www.coopcollinemetallifere.it/musei)

So now you have plenty to explore, discover and relax in Tuscany...even underground!!

Sensorial Spas in Tuscany

A New Wellness Experience in Chianciano

Chianciano Terme has recently remained a little shadowed by the more famouse places such as Florence, Siena, San Gimignano, and the likes.

However, Chianciano Terme has been a famous and very important center for wellness and spa treatments since the Roman times.
The 1960s saw this little town booming with a very well-organized set of infrastructures, such as thermal facilities specialized in wellness, relax and cures, parks, restaurants, hotels of all kinds, and several entertainment facilities.

Just recently, I heard that the Sensorial Spas (or Terme Sensoriali at the moment only te Italian version of the site is ready) had been opened to the public on September 29, 2006.

The website shows a completely different approach to the usual thermal spas.
Ayurvedic doctors let you know what personalized path you should follow, prescribing times and the order with which to go about the various steps.

There are several paths, few of which are relaxing, enegizing, purifying, and regenerating.

The various "activities" comprehend chromotherapy, aromatherapy, phonotherapy, introspective therapy, total body hydromassage, creek walk, high salinity pool, underwater and chromotherapy relax pool, enrgizing marble pyramid, Etruscan Sauna, Turkish Sauna, Swedish Sauna, warm mud "Melmarium", Steam Baths, Depurative liver water fountain, Laminar water massage, and Water rope massage.

The Terme Sensoriali offer plenty of silence and relaxing corners on comfortable sunbeds. Showers and restrooms are of the highest standards. The service is first-class: at the entrance you are given a personal bag with your bath robe, slippers, soap, hair cap, towel, and a hair-brush. The locker rooms are very stylish and include two hair driers and comfortable sits.

A tea-room and a zen garden offer a great conclusion to a wonderful wellness experience in Tuscany.

The length of each session is between 2 and 3 hours.
Entrance is 30 Euro per person.
Yearly pass for one person is 500 Euros.
The You and Me formula is 400 Euros per person.

Open everyday from 10 AM to 10 PM.
Chianciano has surpassed itself with this one. After the experience I REALLY want to get the yearly pass!

Adler Thermae

The Adler Thermae hotel in Tuscany, offer a relaxing and rigenerating holiday in its termal center. I stayed there about one month ago for my summer holidays, and i think that next year i'll come there. The service and the organization are simply perfect, relax is the principal actor. The hotel isn't expensive, sure, but the price is regular for that services.
If you want some additional informations about the hotel and its services, with prices, images, descriptions and availability informations contact this website,

High Life in Pescia's Tuscany Hotel

A luxury retreat in Montecatini Terme

The magnificence of Hotel Tamerici and Hotel Principe is really peer to none in Montecatini Terme. I spent there the best week of my trip to Italy.
Close to parks and to Termal Spas, it is perfect to satisfy the most luxurious needs for a resort and spa hotel in Tuscany.
The hotel was suggested to me by the owner of Ristorante Gambero Rosso and Ristorante Cecco, two lovely, unforgettable restaurants where I happened to be invited by the mayor of this lovely town.
During my stay I also enjoyed golf matches at the 5 star golf club at hotel Tamerici.

If you go to Montecatini Terme do not forget to stop at Hotel Tamerici and Principe and have a feast at Restaurants Cecco and Il Gambero Rosso. Superb treatment for the right amount of money.