The name of this ancient village comes from the castle Vignoni, already known in the XI century, whose traces dominate the height over the village, and characterized by the thermal waters, used since the Roman period, as testify numerous archaeological museums. In the XII century, the “Bagno” belonged to the family Tignosi, masters of Tintinnano, now Rocca d’Orcia, and it remained under their signory until the end of the XIII century; at the beginning of the XIV century, Bagno Vignoni and the surrounding villages and castles became a property of the sienese family Salimbeni and it remained theirs until 1417, when the second husband of Antonia Salimbeni, Attendolo Sforza, sold it to the Commune of Siena. Despite the numerous wars, devastations and fires which involved the valley during the Middle Age, the order of the village Bagno Vignoni has remained substantially unchanged until nowadays .The village developed on a levelling , in the middle between the Vignoni’s hills and the steep gorge of the Orcia river, around a big rectangular bath where the waters gush out: this element is the future generator of the village’s system and still the centre of the Roman thermal equipments. Around the bath placed the houses, the inns and the Church of S. Giovanni Battista, where it is possible to see now the restored fragment of the fragment of the fresco which represents Christ resurrected, attributable to Ventura Salimbeni, originally situated in the chapel of S. Caterina. From the bath, after crossing a portico-bridge where there is the above-mentioned chapel, the waters reached the Thermae and fed a series of mills, situated on the steep edge which is now visitable thanks to a preservative reclamation of the area, made by the Commune of San Quirico d’Orcia.

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