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Roman bathhouses often contained a courtyard, or palaestra, which was an open-air garden used for exercise. In some cases, the builders made the palaestra an interior courtyard, and in other cases, they placed it in front of the bathhouse proper and incorporated it into the formal approach. Sometimes the palestra held a swimming
The Baths of Nero (Thermae Neronis) or Baths of Alexander (Thermae Alexandrinae) were a complex of ancient Roman baths on the Campus Martius in Rome, built by Nero in either 62 or 64 [1] and rebuilt by Alexander Severus in 227 or 229. [2]
The arrangement is known as the 'single-axis row type', the most common model for baths adopted all over the Roman world. [8] On the left-hand side of the palaestra was a swimming pool (6). The rooms which flanked this pool had garden frescoes painted on the walls above a marble dado [9] (lower portion of the wall above the plinth). [10]
Archaeologists described the ancient pool as a first-of-its-kind find. 1,600-year-old indoor pool unearthed at ancient Roman ruins in Albania, photos show Skip to main content
The northeastern end of the bath building contained a natatio or swimming pool. [17] The caldarium had seven pools, the frigidarium four, the tepidarium two. Next to the caldarium were saunas . [3]: 28 The central room was the frigidarium, whose high roof was supported by eight giant columns made from Egyptian granite. Walls and floor were made ...
Water entering the room would come from a pipe or cistern and would exit through a drain within the pool. The water from the pool was thought to have been reused to flush latrines within the complex. The frigidarium was used mainly as a swimming pool or a cold-water bath, depending on the time.
The bath complex was immense by ancient Roman standards, covering an area of approximately 330 by 340 metres. The baths including the open area (which surrounded it on three sides) were enclosed by a perimeter wall, which joined with the bath block on the northeast side, where the main entrance was located. [11]
The only major feature not present in the Baths of Titus is a natatio, or open air swimming pool, which in the later baths of Trajan, Caracalla, and Diocletian preceded the frigidarium on the north side. [7] The frigidarium was the largest room, consisting of three bays with groin vaulted ceilings and enclosures in each corner supporting barrel ...