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Paradise Found

Tuscany’s Thermal Spas Are Just What the Doctor Ordered

By Amy Laughinghouse

’ve been to hell and back -- and it’s There are even handrails to prevent you nary a muffled scream of agony. It must
not at all what you might expect. from falling into the abyss. (Health and be the demons day off, as the only
Contrary to popular belief, the road safety measures in the devil’s digs? souls I see are figures in white hooded
isn’t paved with good intentions, but Presumably, even the pitchforks come robes, kicking back in deck chairs and
Iwith concrete. with a warning: “Caution. Pointy on one sweating for their sins.
end.”)
In the dimly-lit afterlife, towering Fortunately for me, this intriguing neth-
stalactites and dagger-like stalagmites It’s also surprisingly easy to pass erworld is actually the largest thermal
punctuate sinuous corridors that wind between Paradise, Purgatory, and the cave in Europe, nestled deep within
through bulbous, dimpled rock, like the sultry Inferno, where a sign advises “Si- Grotta Giusti resort in Tuscany. Quarry
pathways of a giant, labyrinthine brain. lence Helps Relaxation.” Indeed, there’s workers accidentally discovered the

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