An integral part of daily life in ancient Rome ... Inside the Thermae were the actual baths, a series of heated rooms and pools. Many were carefully situated to make the most of the heat of ...

Ancient Roman bath houses typically included pools of three different temperatures: hot, warm and cold. Large imperial baths, like the one in Aquileia, also housed training rooms for athletes.

This magnificent centrepiece of the Roman Baths is a pool, lined with 45 sheets of lead, and filled with hot spa water. It once stood in an enormous barrel-vaulted hall that rose to a height of 40 ...

An integral part of daily life in ancient Rome ... Inside the Thermae were the actual baths, a series of heated rooms and pools. Many were carefully situated to make the most of the heat of ...