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Brandola Spring

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    Location: Polinago, Modena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

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    1. The Brandola Spring – Devil's Bridge loop from Frassineti

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    2. Celtic Hut at Passo Centocroci – Devil's Bridge loop from Polinago

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    3. Devil's Bridge – Montecuccoli Castle loop from Pavullo nel Frignano

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    April 11, 2023

    Bagni di Brandola, an ancient place located in the Rossena valley, that is an ancient source of sulphurous water, already known to the Etruscans and Romans. A mystical place known in ancient times as a source of water for pagan rites and beliefs.

    However, the notoriety of Brandola water is linked to the events of 1448, i.e. when the area was hit by a heavy epidemic that affected cattle. The inhabitants of the place soon realized that the animals that drank with the water from the spring were cured. The rumor that in Polinago there was a source of miraculous water spread very quickly.

    Queues and pilgrimages to this seemingly miraculous spring soon formed. The water was subsequently analyzed by the doctor Michele Savonarola who spoke in his treatise "De Balneis et Termis", even if its first medical curative use was used by Bartolomeo Accursini, who used it to heal some of his patients.

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