Terme di Santa Lucia
- Location
- Santa Lucia di Tolentino, Marche, Italy
- Water type
- sulfurous
- Temperature
- 38 °C
- pH
- 6.5
Water profile
Soothing — neither hot nor cold, perfect balance.
Rich in active gases or metals — a strong mineral character.
Soft water — natural, classic buoyancy.
On a wooded hill about three kilometers from the center of Tolentino, in Italy's Marche region, the Santa Lucia thermal establishment carries on a tradition dating back to the early 15th century, when travelers already flocked to the nearby Rofanello springs. In 1587, Pope Sixtus V's physician, Andrea Bacci, devoted part of his treatise "De Thermis" to the renown of these sulfurous, salt-bromine-iodine waters.
The current facility, operating since 1937, combines the calcium-bicarbonate water of the Santa Lucia spring — the old "Acquacece" fountain — with that of Rofanello, rich in sodium chloride, bromine, and iodine. Set within a wooded park with rest areas, the site continues a local bathing practice documented for more than six centuries.