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

Day ticket to the sulphur pools at Terme Sabine di Cretone

Palombara Sabina

Out in the Sabina hills behind Palombara, a set of big sulphur pools sits in open country and runs right through the summer, fed continuously so the water never stands still.

How the day goes

  1. In through the gate and pick your pool; the shallow one is given over to the children.
  2. Rent a lounger and an umbrella if you want shade, or take a patch of grass.
  3. Arrive after lunch if you only want the second half of the day.
  4. Palombara Sabina and its castle sit up the hill for the evening.

It is a summer place and it closes for the cold months — out of season, the covered pools at Viterbo run 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 Via dell'Acqua Sulfurea, Loc. Cretone di Palombara Sabina, 00018 Roma, Italy, the address the operator publishes.

Getting there

Getting there, the comfortable way

  • 54 mindrive from the middle of Rome
  • 46 kmeach way
  • 9 h 30once 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

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

Sulphur pools in the Sabina hills

Sulphur pools open till 18:30, and the operator publishes the train to get there.

€12 per person

Books on Terme Sabine di Cretone

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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

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