Terme Bagni di Lucca

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

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Bathing: Indoor
Accommodation: Hotel on site

Bagni di Lucca's hot springs, used in the Middle Ages and formalised under Napoleonic rule, made it a fashionable nineteenth-century resort for the English Romantics and for Europe's exiles. Hot water at around 54 °C still feeds the historic bath house and a natural steam grotto cut into the rock.

The water

Thermal water

Source: Bagni di Lucca springs
Mineralisation: Sulphate-bicarbonate thermal water
Character: Hot springs feeding pools and a natural steam grotto cut into the rock.

Practical information

In the Serchio valley an hour from Lucca; grotto and pool sessions are booked in advance, and the town's villas, Anglican church and cemetery recall its Romantic-era visitors.