Terraces of white travertine formed by thermal water In the hot water

Sulphur pools in the Sabina hills

Palombara Sabina

Sulphur water comes out of the ground here and fills open-air pools in the Sabina hills, north-east of Rome. There is nothing to book and no start time to make: you turn up, get in, and stay until they close.

How the day goes

  1. The way here is published by the operator, train and shuttle both, so you are not guessing at it.
  2. Straight into the pools; the sulphur smell stops registering sooner than you would expect.
  3. The rest is an afternoon outdoors in the hills doing very little, which is what people come for.
  4. Out at closing, into the long light of a summer evening in the Sabina.

It runs in summer only, and it is a place to sit in water rather than a thing to go and see — out of season, the Acque Albule pools outside Tivoli are open all year.

Where it is

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

Palombara Sabina, and where it is from Rome Palombara Sabina drawn at its real position relative to Rome, about 54 minutes by car. The faint dots are the other places we list, so you can see how far out this one is. 54 min Rome Palombara Sabina

Open it where the roads are

Takes you to Palombara Sabina — the town, not the meeting point. Check with the operator where exactly to turn up: their own page is linked further up.

Getting there

A car turns this into a whole day instead of an errand

  • 54 mindrive from the middle of Rome
  • 46 kmeach way
  • 4 honce you are there

  • 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

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Also around Palombara Sabina

More in the hot water

Steam rising from natural hot pools In the hot water

Acque Albule thermal pools

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

€16 per person

Books on termediroma.org

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A large open-air thermal pool ringed by loungers and parasols, seen from above In the hot water

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

Books on termedeipapi.it

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Steaming hot-spring cascades over white rock beside an old stone mill In the hot water

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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Steam rising from natural hot pools In the hot water

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

See the day

One thing we have not resolved: Only multi-entry passes are sold online; a single day ticket is paid at the gate.

Checked 2026-08-17 · termesabine.it/listino-prezzi

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