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The entrance to the Grotta Giusti thermal cave at Monsummano Terme

Monsummano Terme/Italy

Grotta Giusti

A nineteenth-century thermal cave in Tuscany, discovered by quarry workers and later described by Giuseppe Verdi as the eighth wonder of the world.

Photo: Fluctuat, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.5)

Température à la source
34°C
Température de baignade
34°C
Baignade
Intérieur / Extérieur
Fondé en
1849
Hébergement
Hôtel sur place

In 1849 workers quarrying on the Giusti family estate at Monsummano Terme broke into a large natural cavern filled with warm vapour and an underground thermal lake. The cave was developed into a spa in the 1850s, and the three descending chambers — named Paradise, Purgatory and Inferno for their rising heat — remain the centrepiece.

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Pourquoi y aller

Nowhere else combines a natural steam cave, an underground thermal lake and a nineteenth-century villa hotel in quite this way; the cave visit is unlike any built sauna.

Recommandations

Hôtels à proximité

Découvrez où dormir près de Grotta Giusti.

L'eau

Eau thermale

Source
Grotta Giusti cave lake
Minéralisation
Sulphate-bicarbonate-calcium water
Caractère
A natural cave with graded vapour chambers and an underground thermal lake.

Situation

Monsummano Terme, Italy43.8720, 10.8090Voir sur la carte Balnevia

Lieux liés

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