The name of this ancient village comes from Vignoni, castle already known in the eleventh century, which tracks dominate the hill above the village, and the thermal waters used from the outset 'Roman times, as witnessed by many archaeological finds that are in collection Chigi Siena National Archaeological Museum.
In the twelfth century, the "Toilet" was subject to Tignosi family, lords of Tintinnano, now Rocca d 'Orcia, under whose lordship remained until the end of'200,'300 early Bath Vignoni ediborghiecastelli surrounding passed in ossesso Sienese family of Salimbeni, which remained until 1417, when the second husband of Antonia Salimbeni, Attendolo Sforza, sold to the town of Siena.
Despite the many episodes of war, devastation and fires that involved in the Val Corsican medieval, assette the village of Bagno Vignoni is substantially unchanged to the present day.
The village was developed in a esplanade, halfway between the hill of Vignoni and steep gorge of the river Orcia, around a large rectangular basin, within which the water flow element which is the generator of the future of the village and still centre of the village, is a clear reminder to some aspects of thermal plants Romany.
Around the basin rose homes, inns and later the Church of St. John the Baptist, where now you can see the restored delframmento fragment of a fresco depicting Christ risen attributed to Ventura Salimbeni, originally located in the chapel is St. Catherine. From the bathtub, crossed a bridge arcade where the chapel said, the water reached the spa food went to a number of mills arranged on steep sloping edge towards that today you can go through. To restore the area carried out by the Municipality of San Quirico d'Orcia.

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