Exploring Tuscany / P9090065a Our base camp is a renovated stone house, an "agritourismo" on a small farm. Once a defence tower, it lies just below the hill top town of Saturnia (seen here in the distance). The legend holds that an angry Saturn hurled a lightning bolt into the ground here, causing warm, sulphurous waters to gush forth from the crater of a volcano. Etruscan tales of the spring date Saturnia's origins as far back as at least 2800 years ago.