It’s easy to imagine the Etruscans, immersed in the warm waters and the vapours of Calidario, in this land where they started the fusion of metals.
In that period the waters of the spring can be indentified as the famous ‘People’s waters’ frequently used in those times.
The legionary Romans were drawn here and even today we can appreciate important evidence of this like the ‘Mausoleo di Caio Trabazio’ ( the small tower of ‘Caldana’ , where, nearby a Roman acronym has been found, inscribed with ‘Caius Trbatius’. The small tower is still visible 400m from Calidario) and an inscription most probably by the manager of the Roman baths:
"Ad onta dei seguaci di Galeno dona salute a Venere e Mercurio ignea vena che mi stilla in seno".
A large wall around the hot waters was built in the period from 1249-1257.
From the XI Century the owners were the Counts of the Gherardesca, the ‘Val di Cornia’ remained under the rule of the Republic of Pisa until 1406 when it then passed under the rule of the Republic of Florence.
Populonia was a peninsula in the marshes of the Caldana, supplied by the warm waters of the spring and from an estuary of the Cornia river until approx the middle of 1500 when Cosimo I De’Medici regulated the embankments uniting like this also the warm waters called ‘the Fossa Calda’, to then put them into the then called ‘Rimigliamo lake’ and so the marshes finally dried up.
In 1801 the area passed under the rule of the French where it remained until 1815 when Italy united.
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