Terme di Fiumicino — Porto di Roma
- Location
- Fiumicino, Metropolitan City of Rome, Lazio, Italy
- Water type
- bicarbonate
- Temperature
- 38 °C
- pH
- 8
Water profile
Soothing — neither hot nor cold, perfect balance.
Loaded with major ions — the essential minerals (Ca, Mg).
Soft water — natural, classic buoyancy.
Terme di Fiumicino draws chlorurated and bicarbonated mineral water at the mouth of the Tiber where the ancient Portus Traiani, the greatest artificial harbour of the ancient world built by Emperor Trajan in 113 AD, once sheltered 200 vessels in hexagonal basins covering a surface larger than Fiumicino's modern international airport. The thermal springs of the Fiumicino coastline emerge from the same geological layers of marine sediment that underlie the entire Roman coastal plain, and their mineral composition reflects the long history of marine transgression that shaped this stretch of the Tyrrhenian shore. Archaeological digs ongoing around the Fiumicino marina continue to expose the massive concrete quays, warehouses, and lighthouse foundations of Trajan's harbour, creating a unique context in which Roman maritime engineering and modern therapeutic bathing coexist within a few hundred metres of each other.