The walled village above the springs is a single road of stone houses, two churches, a square, and a handful of restaurants — the kind of place you walk through in twenty minutes, sit down for lunch, and emerge two hours later. The Romans called it Aurinia and it claims to be one of the oldest continuously inhabited settlements in Italy, with archaeological finds dating back well before the Etruscans.
The Porta Romana on the south side of the village preserves a stretch of the original Roman gate. The small archaeological museum on the main square — open afternoons only and run by volunteers — displays Etruscan and Roman finds from the surrounding tombs. Most visitors come for a meal: try the wild boar pappardelle that almost every trattoria here makes, and order a glass of Morellino di Scansano from the surrounding hills.