Italy

Viterbo/Italy

Terme dei Papi

A 2,000 sqm sulphurous pool fed by the Bullicame spring outside Viterbo.

Temperatura de banho 55°C

Merano/Italy

Terme Merano

Twenty-five pools in a glass cube between palms and Alpine peaks.

Temperatura de banho 34°C

Bormio/Italy

QC Terme Bagni Vecchi

Roman cave baths and a cliff-edge panoramic pool above Bormio.

Temperatura de banho 38°C

Bagno Vignoni/Italy

Bagno Vignoni Thermal Village

A Tuscan hamlet built around a 16th-century thermal basin in place of a village square.

Sirmione/Italy

Aquaria Thermal Spa, Terme di Sirmione

Sulphur-rich thermal water on a peninsula in Lake Garda, at the tip of a Roman resort village.

Temperatura de banho 34°C

Monsummano Terme/Italy

Grotta Giusti

A nineteenth-century thermal cave in Tuscany, discovered by quarry workers and later described by Giuseppe Verdi as the eighth wonder of the world.

Temperatura de banho 34°C

San Casciano dei Bagni/Italy

Fonteverde, San Casciano dei Bagni

A Tuscan hill-town spa above dozens of hot springs used continuously since Etruscan and Roman times.

Temperatura de banho 38°C

Comano Terme/Italy

Terme di Comano

Trentino spring water at 27 °C, used for skin conditions since the 15th century.

Temperatura de banho 27°C

Forio d'Ischia/Italy

Giardini Poseidon Terme

Twenty-plus thermal pools terraced above a bay on the volcanic island of Ischia.

Temperatura de banho 38°C

Bormio/Italy

QC Terme Bagni Nuovi

A grand 1836 bathhouse above Bormio, fed by alpine springs used since Roman times.

Temperatura de banho 36°C

Bagno di Romagna/Italy

Terme di Sant'Agnese

Sulphate-bicarbonate-alkaline springs in an Apennine village bathed since Roman times.

Temperatura de banho 36°C

Montecatini Terme/Italy

Terme Tettuccio

The grandest of Montecatini's drinking-cure halls, rebuilt in 1928 with marble colonnades and painted galleries.

Abano Terme/Italy

Terme Euganee di Abano

Salt-bromine-iodine water rising at around 87 °C, used for pools and for maturing the Euganean fango mud.

Temperatura de banho 36°C

Salsomaggiore Terme/Italy

Terme Berzieri

A 1920s Art Deco thermal palace built over one of Europe's strongest iodine-bromine brines.

Bagni San Filippo/Italy

Bagni San Filippo

Free, open-air calcareous cascades in the woods below Monte Amiata.

Temperatura de banho 38°C

Petriolo/Italy

Terme di Petriolo

Sulphur springs steaming into the Farma river beneath a medieval bath wall.

Temperatura de banho 40°C

Pré-Saint-Didier/Italy

Terme di Pré-Saint-Didier

Alpine thermal water in terraced tubs facing Mont Blanc.

Temperatura de banho 36°C

Bagni di Lucca/Italy

Terme Bagni di Lucca

Tuscan cure town of Shelley and Byron, above the Lima river.

Temperatura de banho 37°C

Fiuggi/Italy

Terme di Fiuggi

Italy's most famous drinking water, in two woodland spa parks.

Saturnia/Italy

Terme di Saturnia

Sulphur water at 37.5°C falling through travertine terraces in the Tuscan Maremma.

Temperatura de banho 37°C