Life Catchers TUSCANY Wellspring of Life and Wellbeing in the Water CONNECTING MAN and NATURE
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Life Catchers TUSCANY Wellspring of life and wellbeing In the Water CONNECTING MAN AND NATURE Focus, explore the surroundings, discover the countryside, trace a timeless path far from the clamor of daily life to encounter nature in the Water. In this Tuscan adventure, Life Catchers move through a land known for its harmony, culture and joie de vivre – and for its hotsprings whose waters percolate through the earth wearing away the rock to gush forth into bathing pools regenerating body and soul. An unforgettable journey to center yourself and rediscover harmony and the joy of experiencing landscapes, culture and lifestyle. Places Table of contents 1. Sea, mountains and forests / The magic of the Equi Awareness of being in the here and now Life Catchers Terme grottos following the source of life: water. Pag.8 pag 11 IN CONTACT WITH YOUR INNER SELF SUMMARY Equi Terme and San Carlo Terme - Pag.10 FROM THE DEPTHS OF THE EARTH Bagni di Lucca and Monsummano Terme - Pag.12 HOTSPRING OASIS Montecatini Terme - Pag.14 2. Inland and the coast Sea, mountains and / Orrido di Botri Experience your inner world to find pag 13 forests yourself. Pag.16 RIGHT NEXT THE SEA EQUI TERME, SAN CARLO TERME, BAGNI Versilia (Cinquale di Montignoso) - Pag.18 DI LUCCA, MONSUMMANO TERME AND SPIRITUAL ESSENCE MONTECATINI TERME San Giuliano Terme and Gambassi Terme - Pag.19 / Explore and take in IT’S ALL ENERGY AND VIBRATION Valdinievole Casciana Terme - Pag.21 SEEKING REAL NATURE pag 15 Sassetta and Venturina - Pag.23 3. In the poetry of the hills Attaining wellness means finding inner In the poetry of the balance and harmony. Pag.26 WHEN THE SOUL EXPANDS Inland and the coast hills / Via Francigena Rapolano Terme - Pag.28 AT THE EDGE OF TIME VERSILIA, SAN GIULIANO TERME, MOVINGTHROUGH THE VAST SIENESE pag 20 Borgo la Bagnaia and Monticiano - Pag.30 GAMBASSI TERME, SASSETTA AND TERRITORY OF RAPOLANO TERME, EXPERIENCING TUSCANY VENTURINA MONTICIANO AND MONTEPULCIANO Montepulciano - Pag.31 / The legend of the underworld nymph: 4. At the foot of an ancient vulcano Sillene Everything that occurs in our lives is a pag 39 projection of what happens inside us Pag.32 At the foot of an ancient TOWNS ON ANCIENT ETRUSCAN vulcano LANDS Bagno Vignoni and Castiglione d’Orcia - Pag.34 FROM BAGNO VIGNONI, IN THE SPLENDID COUNTRYSIDE CHIANCIANO, CASTIGLIONE D’ORCIA / The legend of Saturn Chianciano Terme - Pag.38 TO SAN CASCIANO DEI BAGNI, HISTORY AND LEGEND San Casciano dei Bagni, Sorano and Saturnia - Pag.40 SORANO AND SATURNIA pag 41 Tuscany: places and routes to take your life back Equi Terme Massa-Carrara San Carlo Terme Bagni di Lucca Versilia (Cinquale di Montignoso) Pistoia Monsummano Terme MONTECATINI TERME Lucca San Giuliano Terme Firenze Pisa Gambassi Terme Livorno CASCIANA TERME Rapolano Terme Siena Borgo La Bagnaia (Murlo) Monticiano Montepulciano Sassetta Bagno Vignoni (S.Quirico d’Orcia) Venturina CHIANCIANO TERME Castiglione d’Orcia San Casciano dei Bagni Sorano Grosseto Close your Saturnia eyes, leave everything behind Spa Towns The dream of so many Life Catchers who want an Historical places of spa escape from their frenetic existence of work, traffic, tourism and focus pollution and stress. A dream that can come true in a land of harmony and on yourself. beauty. Grotte di Equi. Over a thousand meters of karst sinkholes and caverns carved out by water Sea, Mountains and Forests Equi Terme, San Carlo Terme, Bagni di Lucca, Monsummano Terme and Montecatini Terme. mysterious ancient Lunis, whispering forests, Where in just a few babbling brooks, expansive mountain tops, and evocative centuries-old castles. minutes you can In nearby Garfagnana, Nature prevales go from a stroll on over Man - a less rugged scene of chestnut woods, evocative ancient towns and the the beach to 1250 m Grotta del Vento. above the sea: grottos, Garfagnana opens onto Lucchesia, where the splendid panorama of Mediterranean botanical gardens and woods, olive and chestnut groves, and elegant landscapes lay before your eyes: natural parks. corn fields, poplars planted on hilltop ridges, willows and fascinating winding Crossed by valleys formed where the two roads. Awareness of being in the here mountain chains of the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines and the Apuan Alps meet, Lunigiana has always been a frontier The meaning of life and now following the source of life: passageway where the Via Francigena, a medieval route for ante litteram Life becomes clear once water. Catchers in search of meaning in their lives, wends its way through this land of the again. 8 9 Sea, mountains and forests Sunset landscape in the Apuan Alps Waterfalls near Equi hotsprings / The magic of the Equi The Apuans have notable karst features such as the over 1300 Terme grottos recorded grottos. Three important karst systems have been equipped Shapes sculpted over In contact with your inner self for public visits; one of these is the millions of years by the calm, Antro del Corchia. continuous, persistent action Equi Terme and San Carlo Terme of water. In this area generously endowed Lunigiana is a frontier land, a with water is an intricate throughway. A land of castles, Waters & Springs Waters & Springs Waters & Springs underground network of marvelous medieval churches and stone- Peculiarities and Indications Peculiarities and Indications Peculiarities and Indications fantastical shapes. walled towns in a wild, green After millions of years, the grottos landscape. TERME DI EQUI TERME SAN CARLO TERME DELLA LUNIGIANA surrounding human Paleolithic and termediequi.it acquasancarlo.it termedellalunigiana.com Forming the north-west corner of Neolithic settlements reveal how Situated inland among the highest and Tuscany, it is characterized by the Rainwater collects and is filtered The waters of the Terme di San Carlo different we used to be. most picturesque of the Tuscan-Emilian undergound, where it is enriched with spring from deep caverns under the Apuans, called Alps because of peaks is Terme della Lunigiana. The mineral salts invaluable for health, and Apuane Alps at a temperature of around their rugged appearance, whose mineral springs feeding the baths are then re-emerges to be collected and used; 13°C; they are “histophile” waters that have located in the small, unspoiled town of complex geologic history can been the Apuane’s marble heart is the origin of the same PH and saline composition as Cavezzana d’Antena. seen in the stratification of the these beneficial waters. human tissues. rock and their rich vein of marble. TYPE: TYPE: TYPE: Lunigiana also has many medieval Sulphurous-chlorate springs. The Saline-sulphurous-alcaline waters. Oligomineral spring waters at a temperature at the source is 18°C. historical artifacts linked to the Via Temperature varies between 17 and 27°C temperature of 12.8°C. Francigena. MAIN THERAPEUTIC MAIN THERAPEUTIC MAIN THERAPEUTIC INDICATIONS: INDICATIONS: INDICATIONS: The hotsprings in this area have Indicated for the treatment of Their therapeutic value is due to a Indicated in the treatment of urinary gastrointestinal, skin and urinary waters rich in mineral salts, particular colloidal sulpher they tract disease; used in dismetabolic tract disorders. Mud applications for particularly sulphur, chloride and contain. disease. rheumatic conditions. sodium. 10 11 Sea, mountains and forests Grotta Giusti (Monsummano Terme) a unique, Ponte del Diavolo crosses the Serchio river near regenerating visit Borgo a Mozzano, Lucca / Orrido di Botri This spectacular natural canyon near Lucca is an outstanding example of the many marvels to be found in Tuscany. Orrido di Botri is a stunning natural ravine carved by the Pelago Creek with high walls, deep clefts, waterfalls and From the depths of the earth small pools. Renting a protective helmet, you can go for a long, fascinating and adventurous walk along the Pelago river banks. The more adventurous can climb the walls by Bagni di Lucca and Monsummano Terme hanging onto safety ropes and wade through the clear (frigid) water of the creek when there is no other way to continue. Lucchesia is hilly terrain modelled by the meandering Serchio river Waters & Springs Waters & Springs and studded with medievel Peculiarities and Indications Peculiarities and Indications towns. Shady woodlands, Renaissance and Baroque TERME BAGNI DI LUCCA GROTTA GIUSTI villas, small towns ringing the termebagnidilucca.it grottagiustispa.com Pizzorne plateau, the medieval The benefits of these hotsprings have been country churches of Capannori, At Monsummano Terme there is a known since ancient times. Poets and natural hotspring paradise: the Grotta ancient hostels which gave writers such as Byron, Shelley, Montale and Giusti which extends for over 200 meters rest to pilgrims following the Dumas have come here, as well as the great underground, creating underground Via Francigena, the evocative Paganini and aristocrats, and Napoleone labyrinths decorated with stalactites and Bonaparte with his beautiful sister Pauline. archeological area of Fossa stalagmites. Nera. TYPE: TYPE: Calcareous-bicarbonate-sulphurous waters Magnesium-calcium-sulphate-bicarbonate At Borgo a Mozzano is Ponte della with a temperature at the source of 54°C waters. Temperature from 28 to 34°C Maddalena, better known as MAIN THERAPEUTIC “Ponte del Diavolo” (the Devil’s MAIN THERAPEUTIC INDICATIONS: INDICATIONS: Bridge), which has asymmetric Anti-inflammatory, relaxing action on The waters and ozone stimulate arches; the center one is so much the skeleton and muscle structures; cellulare metabolism. Indicated for promotes healing and decongestion of higher than the others that it all types of periferal vasculopathy and Orrido di Botri, a deep gorge Natural vapor grottos with a mucous membranes. fibromialgia. seems to defy the laws of gravity. carved by Rio Pelago in the temperature between 40 and municipality of Bagni di Lucca 47°C at Terme Bagni di Lucca 12 13 Sea, mountains and forests Called “Bagno nuovo” since the XIV century, the Tettuccio spa at Montecatini Terme was so named because of the roof that covered the first spring.