Holidays in Chianciano Terme:artistic and natural trasures
Who has not heard of Chianciano and of the comfort of its thermal baths? Etruscans and Romans already knew their benefits and they greatly used them. But the healthy town in the province in Siena is a small casket of artistic and natural treasures to be discovered even spending the summer at the spa.

The tourist who spends his holidays in Chianciano Terme can decide to alternate the several treatments with the visit of the monuments and the museums of the city

Holidays in Chianciano Terme : ideal place to reach Umbia and the art towns of Tuscany
Chianciano must surely its fortune to its baths but the city is situated in a particularly favorable geographical position. Nestled in the hills, Chianciano Terme is located in between the Val d'Orcia and Val di Chiana, and is an excellent starting point to enjoy, during your holidays, the artistic and natural beauty of nearby Umbria, the art towns of Tuscany and its beautiful medieval villages.

Holidays in Chianciano Terme : the little village
During your holidays in Chianciano Terme you can visit the little village , full of suggestive monuments
Its historical center - Old Chianciano or country - still retains some of its ancient walls and is located on a hill. It differs significantly from the new part of Chianciano Terme, that one has been developed around the spa. Just after Rivellini gate you are in front of the Immaculate Conception Church (formerly St. Mary's Star) and at the end of Via Casini it is well visible the Tower of the clock. These two buildings are marked in their appearance and in their history by wars against Siena and the Medici domination on Chianciano Terme. In Matteotti plaza you can find the Manenti castle - or Monastery, owned by the same name gentlemen of Chiusi, Sarteano and Chianciano -, the thirteenth century Palazzo del Podestà and Palazzo dell'Arcipretura of the eighteenth century, that entertains the Museum of sacred art of the Collegiata. Nearby we find the Collegiate Church of St. John the Baptist and its beautiful Romanesque portal. Beyond the Sun Gate, just outside the walls of the historic center, offers a magnificent panorama of the valley, opposite the most beautiful church of Chianciano Terme, the Temple of Madonna of the Rose. Holidays in Chianciano Terme is a great occasion to discover this little village and not so famous but still beautiful monuments.

Holidays in Chianciano Terme: relax, wellness and art
The tourist who spends his holidays in Chianciano Terme can decide to alternate the several treatments - mud therapy, hydrotherapy, saunas, steam baths, massages and various mineral water treatments - with the visit of the monuments and the museums of the city. We remember by the way the Archaeological Civic Museum of the Waters, that entertains the archaeological finds of the neighbors Etruscans and Romans excavations and the Museum of art, with collections and pieces of works that cross the centuries and the continents. Numerous spas of Chianciano Terme - the Sillene rises on baths that go up again at least to 1005 A.D. – are totally absorbed in the green, that certainly helps to create that ideal environment for the total relax of the person.

Holidays in Chianciano Terme: summer events
If you spend your summer holidays in Chianciano Terme you can also participate to several events that will help you to know the territory.
Regarding the events and summer shows in Chianciano Terme, fixed appointment is the "Greedy Tuesday", a weekly meeting of discussions and tastings of typical products of Tuscany. A classical of recent years of summer nights at the spa of Chianciano is the outdoor cinema: Chianciano Terme entertains the review "Cinema… of Wine", during which is offered to all the bystanders by the Consortium Noble Wine of Montepulciano a glass of red wine before the showing of the films, all shot in Siena and province. The lovers of the reading can participate at the presentation of new books every Wednesday afternoon near the "Coffee of the Thermal baths".

In short, Chianciano Terme is waiting to give you a pure physical and mental wellbeing.

Pasquale Diroma