Montecerboli, Larderello, Sasso Pisano

Since ancient times there has been news of what we now commonly call the “boraciferous fumaroles of Larderello”: at that time, however, Larderello did not exist with this name and neither did the geothermal energy that has been transformed into electricity from them since the very early 1900s. The natural eruptions called lagoni, the muddy pools of boiling water, or the fumaroles, the jets of gas and steam, but also the fumaroles or the bare lands of the mofetes called putizze were already known in the Etruscan and Roman era, as were the hot water springs of different mineralization that were exploited for therapeutic uses

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