When the hot water of Tuscany ’s hot springs meets clayey mud, sometimes history stops and reveals millennia-old secrets that resurface intact, defying time. It happened in San Casciano dei Bagni, in the province of Siena, where, a few meters from the public pools still in use, an Etruscan and Roman thermal sanctuary of extraordinary importance was unearthed between 2021 and 2022.
The archaeological complex of the "Bagno Grande," as it has been renamed, has returned not just fragments but a treasure trove of votive bronzes, considered by many experts to be the most significant Italian archaeological find after the Riace Bronzes. This discovery not only offers a new possibility for cultural growth and rebirth for the area, but opens an unexpected window into a past of coexistence and devotion linked to the healing power of water.
