Thermal Baths of Gambassi Terme
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[email protected] HOW TO GET THERE 3 MAP BY CAR 4 USEFUL & EMERGENCY NUMBERS To reach Gambassi Terme from Florence, take the SGC Firenze-Siena – which begins at the Firenze Impruneta exit of the Autostrada A1 highway – toward 5 TOP10 | TEN REASONS TO CHOOSE GAMBASSI Siena. After approximately 30 kilometres, exit at Poggibonsi Nord and continue toward Certaldo, where you will begin to find directions for Gambassi Terme. GAMBASSI & SURROUNDINGS Otherwise, from Florence or Pisa, it is possible to take the SGC Firenze-Pisa-Livorno: take the 9 TOWNS & VILLAGES Empoli Ovest exit, get on the S.S. n. 429 until Castelfiorentino, where you will find the S.P. n. 4 until Gambassi Terme Gambassi Terme. San Miniato San Gimignano From Siena, take the SGC Siena-Firenze, toward Volterra Firenze and exit at Poggibonsi Sud. Continue along Castelfiorentino the SS 429 toward Castelfiorentino where you will Certaldo find directions for Gambassi Terme. 17 NATURE & ROUTES BY BUS The bus service Autolinee Sita connects Gambassi to Via Francigena Castelfiorentino, Certaldo, Empoli, Firenze, Montaione Via Volterrana and Volterra. Direct line: Montaione – Gambassi – The grottoes of Maurizio Castefiorentino – Montespertoli – Firenze. Bollori, A Hypothermal Spring Town Park, Gambassi Terme BY TRAIN The closest train stations are in Certaldo and 22 CHIURCHES & SPIRITUAL PLACES Castelfiorentino along the Empoli-Siena line; both are approximately 10 km from Gambassi. Churh of Santa Maria a Chianni, Gambassi Churh of Cristo Re, Gambassi Churh of San Frediano, Montignoso BY AEROPLANE Churh of San Pietro, Badia a Cerreto The closest airport is in Florence, called Firenze- Churh of Santa Cristina, Germagnana Peretola Amerigo Vespucci, and is 55 km away. Churh of San Martino, Pillo The airport in Pisa, Galileo Galilei, is 68 km away. Rectory of San Giovanni The Holy Mount of San Vivaldo 27 CONTACTS Index Forte dei Garfagnana Mugello Marmi PISTOIA Lido di Milano Venezia Camaiore PRATO Montecatini Terme Bologna Viareggio EMILIA ROMAGNA LUCCA Roma Torre del Lago Napoli Puccini Vinci FIRENZE Palermo PISA Montelupo Empoli Pratomagno San Miniato Tirrenia MARCHE Castelfiorentino Casentino LIVORNO Certaldo Poggibonsi AREZZO Il Castagno Castellina San in Chianti Lajatico Gimignano Colle Valdelsa Chianti Castiglioncello Monteriggioni SIENA Cecina Marina di Bibbona Bolgheri Colline Marina di Metallifere Castagneto Carducci San Vincenzo Pienza Massa Montalcino Marittima Val d’Orcia Piombino Follonica Punta Ala ISOLA GROSSETO D’ELBA Castiglione della Pescaia Maremma [email protected] Go To Index 4 TOURIST INFORMATION OFFICE FIRST AID CAR SERVICE AND REPAIR CENTERS Via Volterrana 60 Ambulance – tel. 118 Autofficina Auto Tel. 0571 639006 Viale Gramsci 69/d [email protected] Emergency Medical Service Gambassi Terme tel. 0571 69390 tel. 0571 638287 Opening Time April - May Confraternità di Misericordia Autofficina F.lli Giannini from Monday to Friday 3.00 - 6.00 PM di Gambassi Terme Via dei Boschetti 4 Saturday 10.00 AM - 6.00 PM Piazza Roma 12 Gambassi Terme Sunday 10.00 AM - 1.00 PM tel. 0571 638988 tel. 0571 638114 June - September Santa Verdiana Hospital Autofficina Barbieri e Meucci from Monday to Friday 10.30 AM - 1.30 PM Via dei Mille 1 via Meucci 46 / 3.00 - 6.00 PM Castelfiorentino Gambassi Terme Saturday 10.00 AM - 6.00 PM tel. 0571 7051 tel. 0571 632331 Sunday 10.00 AM - 1.00 PM San Giuseppe Hospital Autofficina Giovannoni Mario October Viale Giovanni Boccaccio 16 Via della Repubblica 5 from Monday to Thursday 3.00 PM - 5.00 PM Empoli tel. 0571 650926 Friday 10.30 AM - 1.30 PM / 3.00 to 5.00 PM tel. 0571 7051 Saturday 10.00 AM - 5.00 PM Verdiani Pneumatici Sunday 10.00 AM - 1.00 PM Natali Drugstore via dei Boschetti 12 Dr. Duccini Marco Gambassi Terme Via Volterrana 33 tel. 0571 638166 IN CASE OF EMERGENCIES tel. 0571 638274 Carabinieri – tel. 113 PETROL STATIONS Comando di Gambassi Terme DO YOU STILL SEND POSTCARDS? Via Gramsci 36 Cinalli Alberto - Totalerg tel. 0571.638205 Post Office Loc. S.Maria a Chianni via Matteotti 9 Gambassi Terme Municipal Police Gambassi Terme tel. 0571 638569 Via Garibaldi 7 tel. 0571 638902 tel. 0571.638547 Moncini Rina - Totalerg [email protected] via Morandi 18 BANKS AND ATM Gambassi Terme Fire Department – tel. 115 tel. 0571 631339 Loc. Petrazzi 1 - Castelfiorentino Banca di Credito Cooperativo di Cambiano tel. 0571.64016 Via Garibaldi 14 Gambassi Terme If you see smoke or fire... tel. 0571 638644 Forest Fire Service – tel. 1515 Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena State Forestry Corps Via Matteotti 1 Comando Stazione Empoli Gambassi Terme tel. 0571 74100 tel. 0571 656828 In the event of a gas leak... AGES S.p.a Emergenze fughe gas tel. 800 863256 Useful & Emergency Numbers [email protected] Go To Index 5 TOP 10 | Ten reasons to choose Gambassi Gambassi Terme in ten chapters - ten stop in Piazza dei Priori, visit the Etruscan Land controlled by the Turks. Nearby characteristic hospitality that has always reasons to come visit, stay and return. acropolis and the Roman theatre, and if Certaldo is another undiscovered jewel in run in their veins. In Gambassi, you can do you love art and archaeology, you’ll find Tuscany. You should visit it in July, during your shopping in town, or stop at different Rosso Fiorentino, Taddeo di Bartolo and Il the Mercantia festival that celebrates street places, from farms to agritourisms: through 1 | GAMBASSI TERME, IN THE Ghirlandaio waiting for you! theatre, dance, art and handicrafts. the short distribution chain of small local HEART OF TUSCANY Siena and Florence are less than an hour producers, you can discover genuine meats, away by train from the Castelfiorentino cheeses, olive oil, wine, flour, pasta and Gambassi Terme is the ideal destination for station, which is just 10 minutes from 2 | GAMBASSI TERME: A CORNER OF vegetables, and through this food you may a relaxing vacation close to Tuscany’s Gambassi Terme. If you want to enjoy the RURAL AUTHENTICITY! discover a world of people and relationships. great art cities. Let’s start with some lesser-known parts of Tuscany, found in numbers: it’s 18 kilometres from San its small hamlets, we suggest an excursion The territory of Gambassi Terme has never Gimignano, the village with 13 towers, to San Vivaldo: with its Franciscan lost its most authentic rural dimension. 3 | GOOD FOOD CLOSE AT HAND one of Italy’s most popular skylines. It’s 28 convent, it’s one of the most surprising Over the years, many of the abandoned kilometres from Volterra, the medieval city Jerusalems of Italy, a system of 25 chapels farmhouses have been rebuilt, the ancient Good food is a question of education. famous for its alabaster and impressive built in 1500 to provide worshippers with a vineyards and olive groves have come back You learn to eat well as children, thanks walls that tower over the spectacular Era pilgrimage destination that could substitute to life, and many families have opened to traditions passed down through Valley. Get lost in its labyrinth streets, the costly and dangerous trip to the Holy the doors of their homes, providing the generations, thanks to grandparents with [email protected] Go To Index 6 a vegetable garden, thanks to the flavours 4 | VACATIONS BY THE POOL? you learn about in the kitchen and at the YES, PLEASE! market (the weekly market comes to town on Tuesdays in Gambassi, and on Saturday Do you have no other plans than to bask mornings in Castelfiorentino). You also learn in the sun by the pool? The choices are thanks to the passion of cooks at home or in endless: privacy, exclusivity, breathtaking osterias that work hard to choose the best panoramas, salty water, heated tubs, products, from the mozzarella on your pizza inflatable pink flamingos, suspended to the local ingredients used to revisit atmospheres, the summer sun, the smell of traditional Tuscan dishes. sun cream, dives, splashes, chats under the [email protected] Go To Index 7 umbrella…whatever dream you’re imagining, the entire path in 990. It is between list of proposals and experiences for all ages. you can find it in Gambassi. We can’t two spectacular walks: San Miniato Gambassi means nature and authenticity promise you George Clooney in a bathing - Gambassi, which is 24 km long, and for both you and your children. Have you suit, but for everything else, we’ll bring Gambassi - San Gimignano, which is 14 ever tried to make pizza at home? Gerardo you the best of Gambassi to your poolside, kilometres long. Each route can be walked will teach you, he’s a pasta and dough including yoga lessons, massages, private in one day. If, on your way back, your legs magician! Your children don’t want to follow chefs and babysitters. feel like wood, your feet are boiling and you to the supermarket? Why don’t you visit your body is tired, you have to stop at the the Fattoria Le Caprine farm? You’ll find the thermal baths in the centre of Gambassi best goat cheeses in the area, along with 5 | WE CARE ABOUT YOUR Terme: in addition to specialised personnel, many other organic products, and your kids RELAXATION! a hydro-massage pool, a heated pool, a could have a close encounter of the third sauna and a Turkish bath await you. kind with the goats and learn how cheese Do you need to plan your next excursion? is made. If you like to be together outdoors, Is it too tiring to choose? Do you want to why not try a bicycle tour, a trip to the take a vacation with no worries? 8 | A PLEASANT RETREAT FOR mysterious Grottoes of Maurizio, or a nice Our concierge service is just for you.