Tuscany's free hot waterfalls and spa towns: Saturnia's cascades, Bagno Vignoni's steaming square.
Explore → Get Early AccessTuscany bubbles — free travertine cascades at Saturnia glowing turquoise at dawn, Bagno Vignoni's steaming Renaissance square-of-water, and spa towns the Medici prescribed. Bring a towel and low expectations of privacy at the famous falls; go at sunrise.
Etruscans and Romans built the first pools; Lorenzo the Magnificent soaked at Bagno Vignoni for his ailments, and Saint Catherine of Siena was sent there as a girl — the village square is literally the ancient thermal basin.
Saturnia's Cascate del Mulino run at 37.5°C year-round, free and open always — the sulfur smell washes off, the mineral glow lasts days. Bagno Vignoni's main piazza has been a pool since Roman times; Tarkovsky filmed Nostalghia in its steam.
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