the curative waters at the hotel and spa at the end of the road, bagni masino, have been known since ancient times. pliny the elder extols the virtues of the mountain waters in his encyclopedic volume on natural history. here we are. ah, the mountain water. oh, it's lovely. woman: a lot of people started to drink this water because they found and they had benefit for the elder-- eh, for the stomach, the liver, the circulation. they drink it. do they also bathe in it? they drink it, and also they bath in this water. it makes your skin like silk. oh, now, where does this water come from? it comes from the deep earth of the--- way down under, where the fires are. down, down...yes. ha ha ha. does it grow hair, by any chance? uh, that i don't know. maybe. maxa, voice-over: drinking in the thermal mountain waters and the scenery, i take my cure and reflect on the wonders of lombardy. in the words of yet another romantic poet, william wordsworth, "you have left your beauty with me, a serene accord of forms and colors." it's a landscape that inspires poetry. when next you regard your rudy fa