Isabel Burton I'm floating in a warm pool at Palazzo Fiuggi , a villa in the Italian spa town of Fiuggi, where the natural springs have been associated with vitality since the Middle Ages. Those springs rise from a prehistoric lakebed, filtering through volcanic sediment that enriches the water with healing minerals, I'm told by Maya Skupien, who leads much of the wellness programming at the resort. Word has it that Michelangelo came here to take the waters. So did Pope Boniface VIII.