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Augustan Baths The entrance in the enclosure was made from the West and it was sided on the North, by three roms, that possibly served as support spaces to the user. Among these a destrictarium could be located (? ). The user, heading for the south zone, then found the access to the palestra, where, through an entrance possibly in form of portico could enter to a room with pediluvium, with pavement in mosaic, that seemingly would serve as dress-room and where he could begin its thermal course. Of this room, going through a room with labrum and through the tepidarium, where the first contact with the warm atmosphere would happen, he would arrive to the caldarium where a bath in the hot water of the alveus installed in the North top of the apsed room could be taken. He would be then ready to pass again for the tepidarium, a rectangular room with 6,90 m x 9,45 m, perhaps with a small pool inserted in the West wall; and all the walls in the room covered with tegulae mamatae. Later on he could refresh in the labrum, placed at the centre of the apse in the following room, to leave for the natatio and to take a bath at natural temperature. This porticoed space was built around a pool of cold water of square plan (10,25 m x 10,25 m) with a depth that varies between 1,60 m and 1,65 m. the portico follow three of its sides; the West wall of the pool was built against the wall of limit of the baths. This outline offered a certain comfort to the swimmer against the bad weather, since out of the water one found sheltered under the portico. From the portico only the marks of the column bases (with 0.45 m of diameter) in the Northern and East walls of the pool remain.The swimmer could make some exercises in the palestra or just relax in one of the reserved places close to the entrance of the building. 
Flavian Baths In the more monumental bathing building of the city, if the bather that intended to consummate its ritual of daily bathing, would head to the street to North of the baths and entered the great door that gave access direct access to a wide area (of 859 m2) of rectangular plant occupied to the centre by the great natatio, of 15,90 m for 10,75 m with seven access steps. He would cross this "esplanade " to the portico and where he could choose mong two access doors to the frigidarium, where he would undress and where he could leave his belongings in the niches can be retituted in the South wall of this room. This room would have the double function of frigidarium and dressing-room. In this room he could choose the door of the right (West) or of the left (East) and enter the tepidarium, of rectangular plan, and after the passage through the lukewarm atmosphere, he could opt among entering caldarium proper or the laconicum located to the East of the tepidarium. This laconicum similar to the one of the Baths of the wall, but it is of monumental dimensions, inserted in an circular room of 9 m, decorated with four exedras of semi-circular plant whose diameters are irregular. Opposite Diametrically opposite to the laconicum there is a second tepidarium of circular plant, with 6,46 m of interior diameter. In case the bather opted for entering directly in the caldarium he would have a rectangular room sided by two alvei of hot water, where he could take a bath. It should finally go back through the whole space of the thermal sector to access again in the great pool and take a bath in the water at natural temperature. From the natatio, a portico located to the West goes to the monumental staircase to the palestra, where certainly allowed to enjoy the impressive landscape.  |
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