Terme di Vulcano Eolie

Vulcano Island, in the Aeolian archipelago north of Sicily in the Tyrrhenian Sea, is one of Italy's most dramatically active volcanic islands, its Gran Cratere summit still venting sulfurous fumaroles above a landscape of black obsidian lava, colorful mineral deposits, and bubbling mud pools that have made the island famous since ancient times as the mythological forge of Hephaestus and the origin of the word 'volcano' in European languages. Terme di Vulcano Eolie draws on naturally sulfurous volcanic thermal waters from the geothermal activity of the Aeolian volcanic arc, offering outdoor bathing in the famous Pozzi di Fango (Mud Pools) where volcanic mud bubbles at 50 degrees Celsius and visitors cover themselves in the therapeutic sulfurous clay before soaking in the adjacent thermal sea pools created by underwater fumaroles in the bay. The Gran Cratere volcano summit hike above the steaming fumarole fields, the Aeolian Islands UNESCO World Heritage archipelago boat tours to neighbouring Lipari, Stromboli, and Panarea, and the Sicilian fishing and culinary traditions of the island community create one of the Mediterranean's most dramatically volcanic and scenically extraordinary thermal bathing destinations in the ancient Aeolian island arc.