
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.
Le regard Balnevia
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
Lieux liés
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