Sorgente Zitelle
- Location
- Viterbo, Lazio, 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.
Sorgente Zitelle — 'Spring of the Young Women' — is a natural sulphurous thermal spring in Italy whose name reflects either a folk tradition associating the spring's waters with beauty, skin care, or matrimonial luck for unmarried women, or a local topographical feature. The Italian tradition of associating particular springs with specific therapeutic or social benefits for women — particularly skin-enhancing, fertility-promoting, or beauty-preserving properties — is deeply embedded in the peninsula's folk medicine heritage. The spring's sulphurous water, in the context of Italy's rich volcanic and Apennine thermal landscape, represents the living continuity of natural mineral water use that stretches from ancient Rome to the present day.