Terme Pompeo
- Location
- Ferentino, 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.
In Ferentino, in Italy's Lazio region, Terme Pompeo takes its name from Ambrogio Pompeo, who in 1854 saw the potential of building a spa around the sulphurous springs rising in the area once known as "bagni", drained in the early 19th century under commissioner Zamboni. A 1690 manuscript already credits Flavia Domitilla, niece of Emperor Vespasian, with building the first thermal structure on the site — pointing to a use of these waters dating back to Roman times.
In 1874, physician Guido Baccelli devoted a treatise to the "acidulous-sulphurous waters of Ferentino", classifying them as sulphurous-bicarbonate-calcic. After the Second World War, Marianna Mobilj Carrara expanded the establishment, adding hot and cold baths, a thermal pool and a dining hall, shaping the complex much as it has evolved since.