An outdoor thermal pool with steam rising off the water In the hot water

Sulphur-water day spa at Ferentino

Ferentino

Ferentino is a walled hill town in the Ciociaria, and the spa sits below it on a sulphur spring that was coming up here long before anyone built a pool over it.

How the day goes

  1. Into the steel thermal pool, moving from one hydromassage station to the next.
  2. Out to the loungers in the garden when you have had enough of the water.
  3. A massage or a face treatment on the same visit, booked when you arrive.
  4. Up to the old town afterwards: walls, gates, and the Sacco valley below them.

The day here is built around the pool and the garden, so if you want a long run of saunas and steam rooms, Viterbo and Stigliano do that instead.

Where it is

Ferentino at its real position from Rome, with everywhere else we list behind it — so you can see how far out this one is.

Ferentino, and where it is from Rome Ferentino drawn at its real position relative to Rome, about 66 minutes by car. The faint dots are the other places we list, so you can see how far out this one is. 66 min Rome Ferentino

Open it where the roads are

Takes you to Ferentino — the town, not the meeting point. Ask them where exactly to turn up; the number is on this page.

Getting there

Getting there, the comfortable way

  • 1 h 06drive from the middle of Rome
  • 75 kmeach way

  • Rent a car for the day

    The day stays yours: you leave when you want, stop where you want, and come back when the light goes.

    • You pick it up in Rome and drop it back in Rome
    • No timetable to build the day around
    • The stops on the way are the good part, and they need a car

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  • Have a driver take you — nothing to do but soak

    Our pick for this one

    You come out of the water warm and slow, which is a bad state to drive back in.

    • Picked up where you are staying, dropped back there
    • No parking to find and no ZTL to worry about
    • You can come out of the water and just sit

    Affiliate link — you pay their price, never more, and they pay us. You book with Welcome Pickups, and anything about that booking goes through them.

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An outdoor thermal pool with steam rising off the water In the hot water

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Ferentino In the old stones

The cathedral of Ferentino

A Romanesque church at Ferentino, from the ninth century.

Free — nothing to pay

Just turn up

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Acque Albule thermal pools

Six pools at a steady 23°C, and the station is right behind the park.

€16 per person

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Terme dei Papi monumental pool

The water leaves the ground at 58°C, and on Saturday you can still be in it at 1am.

€12 per person

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Bullicame free hot springs

58°C out of the ground, free, 209 metres from the bus stop, and no changing room.

Free — nothing to pay

Booked by phone

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Tuscia Terme thermal park

Five hours in thermal water up to 58°C and nothing else to plan that day.

€12 per person

Books on tusciaterme.it

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