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Top 15 spas in Italy

15 places to relax in Italy, from historic thermal baths to modern wellness retreats.

15 spas

  1. 1
    Thermal baths

    Terme di Saturnia

    Saturnia

    Thermal spa resort built around a sulphurous spring feeding large warm pools in the Maremma hills.

  2. 2
    Thermal baths

    Cascate del Mulino

    Saturnia

    Free natural hot spring cascading over terraced travertine pools beside an old mill.

  3. 3
    Historic bathhouse

    Bagni Vecchi di Bormio

    Bormio

    Thermal baths with Roman origins, including a natural steam cave tunnelled into the mountainside.

  4. 4
    Thermal baths

    Terme Merano

    Merano

    Modern thermal complex by Matteo Thun in the spa town's centre, with indoor and outdoor pools.

  5. 5
    Destination spa

    Grotta Giusti

    Monsummano Terme

    Spa hotel with a natural thermal grotto of warm lakes and steam chambers discovered in 1849.

  6. 6
    Thermal baths

    Terme di Sirmione

    Sirmione

    Spa using hot sulphurous water rising from the bed of Lake Garda, with lakeside pools.

  7. 7
    Destination spa

    Lefay Resort & Spa Lago di Garda

    Gargnano

    Eco-designed destination spa on the hills above Lake Garda's western shore.

  8. 8
    Destination spa

    Fonteverde

    San Casciano dei Bagni

    Medici-era thermal estate in southern Tuscany with pools fed by mineral springs.

  9. 9
    Thermal baths

    Negombo

    Lacco Ameno, Ischia

    Thermal park of pools set in terraced Mediterranean gardens on San Montano Bay.

  10. 10
    Thermal baths

    Giardini Poseidon Terme

    Forio, Ischia

    Ischia's largest thermal park, with pools at varying temperatures above Citara beach.

  11. 11
    Thermal baths

    Bagni San Filippo

    Castiglione d'Orcia

    Wild hot springs in woodland, flowing over white calcium formations known as the Balena Bianca.

  12. 12
    Thermal baths

    QC Terme Pré-Saint-Didier

    Pré-Saint-Didier

    Alpine thermal spa in a restored 19th-century building with outdoor pools facing Mont Blanc.

  13. 13
    Hammam & sauna

    QC Termemilano

    Milan

    Urban spa by the Spanish walls with saunas, steam baths and an old tram converted into a sauna.

  14. 14
    Thermal baths

    Terme dei Papi

    Viterbo

    Thermal spa fed by the Bullicame spring once used by the Etruscans, Romans and popes.

  15. 15
    Wellness retreat

    Palazzo Fiuggi

    Fiuggi

    Restored Belle Époque grand hotel turned medical wellness retreat in the spa town of Fiuggi.

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