Il Grand Hotel Excelsior
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Albergo - Centro congressi a Chianciano Terme
The Val d'Orcia
In the heart of Terra di Siena you find a perfect, essential landscape consisting of hills, erosion furrows, the winding course of the river and cypresses which, in isolation, crown the high ground or, in ordered rows, follow the progression of the roads. On the hills, hamlets and isolated monuments of extraordinary charm overlook oak woods, olive groves and vineyards where Brunello and other great Tuscan wines are produced. To the west the landscape is closed by Monte Amiata, the highest extinct volcano in Italy. But emotion comes first and foremost from the hills. Because Val d’Orcia is first and foremost nature.
The river from which it takes its name is little more than a torrent for much of the year, almost drying up in the summer heat. But with the autumn rains it becomes an impetuous river that seems to want to sweep everything before it. The source is in the hills between Radicofani and Sarteano, and it descends into the centre of a wide hollow. It then winds progressively westward, skirting the hills of Pienza, San Quirico, Montalcino e Castiglione. It dodges Mount Amiata and plunges into a wild ravine before continuing among the hills of upper Maremma. Lastly, it flows into the Ombrone.
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Of course the water is not only that of the Orcia and its tributaries. At Bagno Vignoni and Bagni San Filippo, the spa waters rising from the heart of the volcano come powerfully to the surface and form concretions of rare beauty. For millennia these waters have offered well-being and health to a public willing to travel a very long way to enjoy them.
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