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Chianciano Thermal Baths

Chianciano Terme
Chianciano Terme

Chianciano Terme, a center located about 550 meters above sea level and surrounded by beautiful wooded hills, is a place that has made water its wealth.


Chianciano has been synonymous with spas since ancient times, so much so that the first testimonies date back to the fourth century BC and belong to the Etruscans.


Legend has it that their goddess of beauty, Sillene, hid herself in the bathrooms she used to do in the baths in the waters of the spring.

After centuries, even today the essential quality of this place has remained unchanged: water.


The main springs are Holy Water, Acqua Fucoli, Acqua Santissima and Acqua Sillene.

They represent the precious resource on which the treatments and wellness treatments of Terme di Chianciano are based.


The treatments and services offered by these spas are therefore really many, ready to satisfy the needs of each customer, by the one who needs only leisure and well-being for his body to the one who needs medical services.

The therapeutic efficacy of the water is attested by constant and sophisticated scientific research.


At the thermal baths of Chianciano flow the waters beneficial for the care of the liver and the gastroenteric system.

There are also artroreumatic baths and mud baths and hydromassage baths for the care of peripheral vasculopathies.


Hydromassage baths for vascular pathologies are in great demand especially among women, as they are useful in treating the after-effects of phlebopathies. chronic, determined by venous valve insufficiency of the lower limbs.

After a medical examination of specialist admission and all the appropriate examinations, you can proceed to the therapy, which consists of a course of twelve therapeutic baths in Sillene thermal water. carried out in a single bath with whirlpool.


The thermal baths of Chianciano are equally known for their inhalation treatments.

Inhalations are carried out through the “Most Holy” thermal water, transformed into a steam consisting of micelles, small particles of gas that are sucked by the patient.

They are distributed in the upper and middle airways, reaching the trachea and bronchi.

The effects are beneficial for all chronic pathologies of the upper and lower respiratory tract, in chronic atrophic forms and in mucopurulent catarrhal forms.

In all chronic pathologies in which the catarrhal component prevails to be particularly indicated is the aerosol.

To treat rhinitis, chronic rhinosinusitis and chronic nasopharyngitis, micronized nasal showers are ideal, while for chronic diseases of the upper and lower respiratory tract there are recommends collective mist, which also exploits the properties of the Most Holy Water.


Among the treatments that can be carried out there are mud balneohydrotherapy, hydropine treatments, massages, balneotherapy.


At the thermal baths of Chianciano you not only recover the optimal health conditions but you relax and improve your aesthetic appearance.

Thanks to the wider range of beauty treatments for men and women, it is possible to regain shape, tone, line, rejuvenate the face and reshape the body by eliminating wrinkles and blemishes.


How to get to Chianciano Terme

Getting to Chianciano Terme is simple either by train (the Rome-Florence-Milan railway line is 15 km away) than by car (the motorway exit is 6 km away).

Even the main airports (Rome, Florence, Perugia, are only an hour's drive away).

The spas are open all year round.


written by Lansbury Sessions - Last update: 15/09/2021
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