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.
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- Source temperature
- 34°C
- Bathing temperature
- 34°C
- Bathing
- Indoor / Outdoor
- Established
- 1849
- Accommodation
- Hotel on site
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.
Balnevia view
Why visit
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.
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The water
Thermal water
- Source
- Grotta Giusti cave lake
- Mineralisation
- Sulphate-bicarbonate-calcium water
- Character
- A natural cave with graded vapour chambers and an underground thermal lake.
Location
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