The 13 Best Spas in Italy

Lavender and thyme scent the air the moment you walk in, which sets the tone for everything that follows. This spa on Lake Garda leans hard into simplicity, with saunas, steam rooms, multiple pools, and a fitness center, but the design keeps pulling the outside in through open sightlines and garden air. Vogue named it among the 100 Best Spas in the World. Lake Como gets the glamour; Garda, apparently, gets the quiet.

A spa so large that its four treatment wings each carry their own name, Lefay SPA Dolomiti sprawls across more than 5,000 square meters inside the Dolomites. The magnesium salt whirlpool anchors the whole operation, and guests circle back to it between circuits of herb-scented saunas, steam rooms of escalating intensity, and sensory waterfalls. Vogue named it among its 100 Best Spas in the World, which tracks: two days here barely scratches it.

The mineral water flowing through Fiuggi has been credited with dissolving kidney stones since Michelangelo made that claim, which is the kind of endorsement that outlasts any press trip. Palazzo Fiuggi is a full medical spa built around that same spring water, pairing clinical wellness programming with the sort of Italian hospitality that makes rigorous health protocols feel less like a regimen and more like a long, indulgent stay in the hills.

Sulfurous white water has been bubbling up from these Tuscan springs for longer than anyone has bothered to count, and the spa at Terme di Saturnia is built around that fact rather than despite it. It has the unhurried quality of a place that knows the water is the point, not the program. Vogue named it among the 100 Best Spas in the World, which tracks: the instinct here is to slow you down, not optimize you.

The spa at Borgo Egnazia swaps the resort's pale tufo limestone for something darker and more grotto-like, a deliberate shift into a different sensibility. Vair is a full luxury spa, with pools, treatment rooms, and a menu of therapies rooted in Puglian traditions and local ingredients. Vogue placed it among their 100 best spas in the world, which tracks when you step inside and realize the designers were clearly in a competition with themselves.

The Beauty Center at Villa d'Este sits inside a palazzo on Lake Como so old and so extravagant that a spa almost feels like an afterthought, which is precisely why it works. This is a full hotel spa with treatments calibrated for guests who arrived by boat and plan to stay awhile. The lake views do a lot of the therapeutic heavy lifting, and Vogue counts it among the world's 100 best spas, for whatever that's worth on a Tuesday in a robe.