Terme romane di Santa Venera al Pozzo
The Roman baths at Santa Venera al Pozzo are a study in layered stone and purpose. What remains is not a single building but a palimpsest of three con…
57 documented thermal bathss across Italy, each with real history, a location, and (where available) a photo. A sample below; the full set travels with you offline in the Atika app.
The Roman baths at Santa Venera al Pozzo are a study in layered stone and purpose. What remains is not a single building but a palimpsest of three con…
Catania’s Roman thermal baths. A surviving complex of heated rooms and water channels in the city centre, typical of the public bathing culture that d…
The Terme romane dell'Indirizzo, in Piazza Currò near Catania’s cathedral and Castello Ursino, are among the city’s several Roman bath complexes, alon…
A Roman bath complex in Italy, known as the Terme della Rotonda. It is a surviving example of the public bathing culture that characterised the Roman …
Terme di San Giuliano is a Baroque thermal bath complex in Italy. These baths are a product of the Baroque period, an era known for its dramatic, orna…
This is a thermal bath complex that grew by accretion, a tangle of volumes and eras that now fills the block between Piazza delle Terme, Via Fiorentin…
The Seminario Diocesano in Nicastro stands in the old part of town, hard by the Cathedral and the municipal buildings. Its form is almost rectangular,…
In the south-western corner of Velia, at the foot of the acropolis hill, the Roman baths make a quiet but emphatic statement about civic life. The sit…
Cisternone mediceo is a Baroque thermal bath complex in Italy. It is a large, formal water structure from the Baroque period, a time when such sites o…
Fonte di San Rocco is a modern thermal bath in Italy. It is a site for bathing in naturally heated waters. Such facilities are common in the region, o…
In the Roman world, Baiae was a byword for luxury and leisure, a coastal resort where the patrician class escaped the heat and politics of Rome. The a…
A thermal bath site in Italy, known as the Tabernacolo di Colognole. It is a structure associated with the region's long tradition of thermal bathing,…
Atika Contursi Terme, Centro Storico The historic core of Contursi Terme, once simply Contursi, clings to a defensive hilltop in a layout that is es…
Terme di Porretta, a thermal baths complex in Italy. This is a site where natural hot springs have been harnessed for bathing. Such baths are a common…
By the mid-nineteenth century, the Salento coast south of Otranto remained a formidable prospect: a high, rocky, roadless escarpment, its only landmar…
Public baths generally dated to the reign of Caracalla.…
A monumental public bath of ancient Rome that was built between 104 and 109. The architect Apollodorus of Damascus built the baths for Trajan.…
Baths of the early imperial period at Carsulae.…
The so-called Terme della Trinacria in Regio III of Ostia Antica were built in the Hadrianic period at the same time as the Temple of Serapis (III,XVI…
The Thermae Antoninianae, commonly known as the Baths of Caracalla, were built in Rome between AD 212 and 216.…
The Forum Baths of Pompeii, built after 80 BC, occupy a sizeable block near the town’s civic heart. They were publicly financed by local officials, a …
Thermae Novati, ancient baths of the Vicus Patricius that were located in the vicinity of S. Pudenziana.…
An ancient thermal site known as Aponi fons or Aquae Patavinae.…
The Roman baths at Fiesole date to the time of Sulla in the first century B.C.…
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 42 C4 Aquae Apollinares Novae…
A thermal site in Etruria northeast of Centumcellae.…
Public baths near the Viminal Hill in Rome constructed under Diocletian from 298-306 CE.…
A group of springs located west of Tibur (modern Tivoli). The main spring, known as Lago della Regina, preserves traces of an ancient Roman bath.…
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 44 E3 Aquae Vescinae…
On the Bay of Naples, off the Sorrentine Peninsula, Capreae has been a favoured seaside retreat since the Roman Republic. The emperor Tiberius kept tw…
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 47 B3 Aquae Segestanae…
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 47 F2 S. Calogero…
The site of thermal spings, founded as a sub-colony of Selinus in the seventh century B.C. Thought to be in the area of modern Sciacca.…
An ancient thermal site with both nuragic and Roman remains. Now the community of Benettuti on the island of Sardinia.…
Imperial baths located on Fundi's decumanus maximus.…
The Thermae Helenianae, or Baths of Helena, rose within the sprawling Horti Spei Veteris, the ancient gardens that once adorned the eastern edge of Ro…
A place named on the Peutinger map, possibly to be associated with modern Monte Cerboli, Italy.…
The Roman bath at Fregellae is a quietly pivotal place. Its two phases of construction, in the third and second centuries BCE, mark a moment when bath…
An Umbrian hill town layered from the Romans to the Middle Ages, crowned by one of Italy's boldest bridges. Spoleto keeps a Roman theatre and house, a…
The South-Western Baths at Herculaneum, uncovered in the excavations of the Insula Occidentalis, offer a curious footnote to the town’s final days. Th…
The Roman baths Fordongianus dates to the first through third centuries.…
The Roman baths of ancient Ferentium are located adjacent to the Roman theater.…
A public bath (thermae) of the Roman Imperial period.…
The thermal site of Aquae Rusellanae, near the ancient Roman city of Rusellae, is a place of quiet, enduring utility. Its original Roman name is lost …
These Roman baths in modern Bevagna, Italy, date to the second century CE and were rediscovered in 1891.…
The mineral springs at modern Lamezia Terme, in the Catanzaro province, have a history that is more speculated than solid. Some scholars tentatively i…
A key element of a well-known area of thermal spas and springs already in use in Roman antiquity, located in modern Italy's Veneto region.…
Ancient thermal baths in use from the Etrusco-Roman period onward.…
The Thermae Constantinianae were the last of the great imperial baths built in ancient Rome, a final grand expression of a civic tradition that had, f…
The Grand Hotel San Pellegrino is a former thermal baths complex in the town of San Pellegrino Terme, Italy. This type of site typically reflects the …
A thermal bath site in Italy, named Casa località Ca' Magnano. The location is a reminder of the long Roman and later Italian tradition of bathing in …
Terme di Regoledo is a thermal bath complex in Italy. The site belongs to a long tradition of Italian spa culture, where mineral springs have drawn vi…
Casa Frosio is a thermal baths site in Italy. Little is known of its specific history. Many such bath complexes in the region were built around natura…
This is a thermal bath complex, now known as the Cimitero di Valsecca, located in Italy. The name suggests a later, secondary use for the site. Such R…
Casa località Ca' Magnano is a thermal baths site in Italy. It belongs to a tradition of bathing complexes found across the Italian peninsula, often a…
A thermal bath site at Cascina località Grumello, in Italy. It is a type of structure built for bathing and social use in the Roman period.…
This is the Reine d'Angleterre, a thermal baths site in Italy. It is one of many such establishments in the region, where natural hot springs have bee…
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