Name: Tuscany | Italy's Best Hot Springs and Renaissance Hill Towns
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There's nothing better than doing a mud bath right here.

Ladies and gentlemen, Vagabuddies, welcome back to the channel.

I'm on a road trip with my girlfriend, Carrie Rad, and we are standing above what might be the most beautiful hot springs I have ever seen.

The Saturnia Hot Springs in southern Tuscany.

And oh my god, I cannot wait to get in there.

Might be the most beautiful hot springs you've ever seen.

Oh my gosh, that is like a hot springs wonderland.

We turned around that corner right there and it just opened up to this view and both of our jaws just dropped.

It's hot spring Disneyland, but only has about five people in it because of the time that we're here, which is amazing.

All right, well we just got to the hot springs.

Never seen anything like this with the water just like cascading down into all of these natural pools nestled up against this old mill here.

It's got to be one of the nicest free natural hot springs in the world, and we're super excited to get in.

So we will see you on the other side of this bath.

This is definitely the most beautiful hot spring i've ever been to. It's not the hottest.

It is hotter than the temperature outside, which is nice when you're in the water you feel like it's just the perfect temperature.

As soon as you raise up a little bit it gets a bit colder, but we are here in February.

So it's cold here right now, but it still feels so good and just looking around.

It's incredible. It's huge and I've just never been to a hot spring this big.

Well for our first stop in Tuscany, that was incredible.

I think I could just live in that pool, honestly.

But there's more hot springs to explore. There's much more to explore.

So we're going to pack up, head into the car, and drive north.

A bit of a surprise here. We are surrounded by snow. This is a two-wheel drive car, so we're driving very carefully and trying to avoid the patches of snow.

It is hot spring number two here in Tuscany.

First made it into the history books because a hermit lived here in the 13th century, and I have to say if I were going to be a religious hermit,

I would definitely be posted up right next to a hot spring.

Can't have sex, can't do very many other fun things, but you can soak, and soaking almost makes up for all the rest of the stuff.

So we're going to head down this little trail, beautiful little forest, right below the snow line. Had a bit of a surprise last night driving here.

Google Maps routed us through this little back road, and we popped out in the old town of some town around here and quite literally got the car pretty much stuck.

Thank God. That was ridiculous, honestly.

Well mud treatment first and foremost is an exfoliant because of the grain in the mud.

It removes dead skin and at the same time it moisturizes because this mud has been sitting at the bottom of this sulfur bath for so long. Just accumulating minerals.

That's kind of why a lot of these hot springs out here in Tuscany were made famous originally. In the 13th century a hermit, religious hermit, came out here and decided it was a pretty good place to worship the Lord.

But after that, a lot of these spa towns in Europe in the 1800s and stuff, they became very popular with people who had different ailments, sicknesses.

For modern medicine, almost everything could be cured by soaking in mineral waters.

But for me, I'm still a big fan of just coming out to the natural places because you can't get any better than this.

If you go to a spa, especially in Los Angeles, and get a mud bath, it's going to be anywhere from $60 at the very lowest to $160 to $400.

But here you can do it completely free in Tuscany, obviously, and you can experience this. I mean there's nothing better than doing a mud bath right here.

Well, ladies and gentlemen, we have been very lucky to have this entire thermal spring to ourselves all morning.

But it's been about two hours of soaking.

We've had a free mud treatment, and I think we're ready to pack things up and continue the road trip.

So now we are at the town of Bagno Vignoni.

There is also a thermal resort here and the ruins of these old mills and a pretty incredible like sulfur wall right here that just drops off and got a view of one of the hilltop towns in the background, castles all covered with like steaming hot springs.

It's pretty awesome. But supposedly they have a main plaza here, and in the plaza is a big thermal pool right in the middle of the plaza.

I don't think you can bathe in it anymore, but it's supposedly very beautiful. So we're going to go check it out.

Supposed to have the thermal pool right in the middle of town, built in the renaissance by the Medici's who bathed here.

If you don't know anything about the Medici's, read The Prince by Machiavelli.

A little bit ruthless, a little bit antiquated, but still a good read. And yet here we are.

A little bit ruthless, a little bit antiquated, but still a good read. And yet here we are. Nobagno.

Still a beautiful little town, though. I'm going to putz around, try to grab a cappuccino, and I think it's time to andiamo.

So we asked around town, and the reason why the bath is drained is because over time it accumulates algae, totally natural, but they have to empty it every once in a while and scrape it clean.

And right as we're leaving, the bath is being filled again.

We figured it'd be good to get a place for a couple of nights.

Alex has some laundry he needs to wash from being in Scotland.

So we figured going into a city where we can get some dinner, wash our clothes, get a hot shower.

For some reason we've been struggling to find hot water at the last few places that we've stayed.

True, but we need to get some of that sulfur off of us because it's been a really hot day.

It is a beautiful day here in Pienza, Tuscany.

It's known for its pecorino cheese, and it's also known for just being a really lovely little hilltop town.

Just watched the sun rise out over the countryside from the edge of the town walls, and now we're going to go grab a cappuccino.

So Pienza has a pretty interesting history.

It was first mentioned back in the 9th century under the name Corsignano, and it would keep that name until the mid-1400s when a young man, eventually to become a very influential man, named Pope Pius II renamed the town, his hometown, after himself.

When you're Pope, why not make your hometown a vacation home and rename it after yourself?

But he rebuilt the town, and he did it in the Renaissance style.

This was the first time this had ever happened in history.

The entire town was rebuilt by a very influential architect from Florence.

The architect's name was Bernardo Rossellino.

He began reconstruction in 1459, and he finished his masterpiece in 1462,

El Duomo, which was consecrated by Pope Pius II.

The town was made a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996, and the entire Val d'Orcia was made a UNESCO Cultural Landscape in 2004.