Napa County
Location and origin
Calistoga lies at the northern end of the Napa Valley, on Highways 29 and 128, some 75mi/120km from San Francisco. The town was founded in 1859 by Sam Brannan who sensed in the hot springs, the natural mud and the geysers the ideal requirements for building a spa
Calistoga (the name is a combination of California and Saratoga, an important spa in New York State) reached its peak in the seventies and eighties of the last century. Since then, vine cultivation has been the main source of income.