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Casciana Terme
Set in the amazing Tuscan countryside around Pisa, Casciana Terme represents, with more the one thousand years of history, one of those little masterpieces that the Tuscan culture has carefully erected and preserved throughout the centuries.
The village's history is wrapped in a romantic legend about the Countess Matilde di Canossa. The noblewoman used to have an bent old blackbird. At some point, the bird started moving away every day for a while from the ancestral residence, to come back more and more sprightly. The Countess noticed the blackbird while diving in a pond of hot water and understood that that water rejuvenated her little friend. The Countess began to use those prodigious waters to cure the infirmities of old age and her gout.
A part from the legend, the Countess Matilde gave a stimulus to thermal tourism and the exploitation of thermal waters. She decided to build a number of infrastructures and embellishment works.
In the year 800, Casciana was called Castrum ad Aquis. It was a well-known village thanks to the thermal waters and belonged to the Count Ugone, until 1100. Casciana saw the was against Florence, it was put on fire and annexed to the Republic of Florence in 1515, then to the Vicariate of Peccioli and, in 1776, to the Vicariate of Lari.
During the following years, the village's economy has focused on the thermal baths and, to meet the demand of the local nobles, the first important hotel was built in 1912.
The thermal water in Casciana is called "Acqua Mathelda", in honour to the countess, and springs out at a constant and natural temperature of 35,7 degrees C.
Other towns in the area: Arezzo, Asciano, Badia a Ruoti, Badia Agnano, Bagni di Lucca, Bagno a Ripoli, Barberino Val d'Elsa, San Giustino Valdarno, Bucine, Campo nell'Elba, Camucia di Cortona, Carrara, Casole d'Elsa, Castel San Gimignano, Castelfiorentino, Castellina in Chianti, Castelnuovo Berardenga, Castiglione Fibocchi, Castiglion Fiorentino, Castiglioncello, Certaldo, Cetona, Chianciano Terme, Chiusi, Cinigiano, Civitella della Chiana, Colle di Val d'Elsa, Cortona, Dudda, Empoli, Fabbrica di Peccioli, Figline Valdarno, Florence, Foiano della Chiana, Fonteblanda, Forte dei Marmi, Gaiole in Chianti, Gambassi Terme, Ghizzano, Grassina, Greve in Chianti, Grosseto, Iesa Palazzo, Impruneta, Isola del Giglio, Lamporecchio, Laterina , Livorno, Loro Ciuffenna, Lucca, Lucignano, Marciano della Chiana, Marina di Grosseto, Empoli, Masotti, Massa, Moggiona, Molazzana, Monsummano Terme, Montaione, Montalcino, Monte San Savino, Montecatini-Terme, Montefollonico, Montelopio, Montepulciano, Monterchi, Monteriggioni, Monteroni d'Arbia, Montevarchi, Monticiano, Montisi, Nievole, Orbetello, Panzano in Chianti, Pergine Valdarno, Pian di Sco', Pienza, Pietrasanta, Pieve Fosciana, Pisa, Pistoia, Pitigliano, Poggibonsi, Pontassieve, Ponte a Elsa, Pontedera, Poppi, Porciano di Lamporecchio, Porciano di Stia, Pozzo della Chiana, Prato, Radda in Chianti, Radicofani, Rapolano Terme, Reggello, Rignano sull'Arno, Rigomagno, Rigutino, Riparbella, Rosignano Solvay, San Baronto, San Casciano dei Bagni, San Casciano in Val di Pesa, San Gimignano, San Giuliano Terme, San Giustino Valdarno, San Miniato, San Quirico d'Orcia, Sarteano, Saturnia, Scandicci, Segromigno in Monte, Seravezza, Serre di Rapolano, Sieci, Siena, Sinalunga, Sorano, Staggia Senese, Subbiano, Tirrenia, Torre del Lago Puccini, Torrita di Siena, Trequanda, Vagliagli, Venturina, Viareggio, Vinci, Volterra |
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