Found on the penultimate floor of an ancient building in the historic center, the B&B Casa Mascagni offers its guests the opportunity to stay in the same rooms where the mother of Paolo Mascagni, a well-known Tuscan anatomist of the 18th and 19th centuries, lived.
Pomarance, a room overlooking the historic center
The B&B Casa Mascagni has been meticulously refurbished to preserve the soul of this ancient house. The ceilings, the arches and the vault of the staircase are just some of the original elements that illustrate the historical authenticity of the place. The rooms overlook the charming streets of the medieval village and the traditional bell tower.
Who was Paolo Mascagni, the Pomarancino anatomist.
The son of Captain Andrea Mascagni and Elisabetta of Carlo Burroni, he was an interdisciplinary scientist, a brilliant scholar of medicine, but also of agriculture, botany, mineralogy, and even chemistry. Still little known to the general public, Mascagni was in his own way brilliant, as well as of great importance for the Tuscan territory. Among other things, we owe him the fundamental and innovative studies on the lymphatic system that he first managed to reveal in the human body through the injection of mercury. He then went on to become the first person to create a life-size anatomical atlas for educational use.
Mascagni and the study of the lagoons.
At the same time as the morphological studies he carried out, Mascagni also devoted himself to the studies of those manifestations of the earth’s heat in the places of its origins. In the soils where the blowholes break in and in the edges of the ponds he discovered in the mineral known as “pebble” the presence of boric acid in solid state and intuited the prospects of exploitation for industry.
