Terme Di Fontecchio

Terme di Fontecchio is an Italian thermal spa in the ancient village of Fontecchio in the Aterno River valley of Abruzzo, where sulfurous mineral springs have been used for bathing since at least the medieval period in the remote mountain landscape of central Italy — one of the Apennine Peninsula's most historically preserved and least disturbed highland regions. The sulfurous waters are valued in the Italian thermal tradition, and the centuries-long history of Italian sulfur springs whose 'acque sulfuree' have been celebrated from the ancient Romans onward has long made them a fixture of the country's bathing culture. The setting deep in the Abruzzo interior — a landscape of medieval hilltop villages, ancient oak forests, and the dramatic rocky peaks of the Gran Sasso and Majella national parks — provides a context of extraordinary natural wildness and historical depth for the simple, direct experience of soaking in sulfurous mountain thermal water.