Tuscany's free hot springs

Southern Tuscany has hot springs with no ticket and no gate, most of them on the flanks of Monte Amiata, an extinct volcano, and in the valleys running off it. Being free doesn't make them all the same. Some are hot enough for January and some only for August, some have a bar and some have nothing at all, and at one of the best known you can't get in the water. These entries cover what decides the trip: how warm the water is, how you walk in, what you pay to park and what is closed.

Places in this collection

  • Bagno Grande — This is the free public pool, locally called the vasconi, with water at about 41°C. It is in the countryside below San Casciano and a short…
  • Parco dei Mulini — About a hundred metres below Bagno Vignoni's square, the thermal water runs downhill through small channels and cascades, past the old mill…
  • Bagni di San Michele alle Formiche — A free thermal bath in the woods of the upper Val di Cecina, well away from the crowds at Saturnia and Val d'Orcia. OpenStreetMap maps the…
  • Bagni di Petriolo — Petriolo has two parts: paid private establishments and a free area of small natural pools on the bank of the Farma, a 34-kilometre river r…
  • Bagni San Filippo — The free pools are in the Fosso Bianco, on the east side of the village, where hot springs run into a stream. How warm each pool is depends…
  • Cascate del Mulino — The Gorello, a stream of sulphurous thermal water, drops over a calcareous ledge here and fills a series of pools at different levels. The…

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