Baths of Caracalla
Ancient Roman thermae standing near full height, with walkable underground tunnels and rare mosaics.
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This guide to the Baths of Caracalla in Rome opens with Emperor Caracalla seizing sole power in 211 after his brother Geta's murder, and traces the sixty-two-acre complex he built afterward, from its libraries and open-air pool to the furnaces and tunnels that heated it. It follows the baths through three centuries of daily use after Caracalla's own assassination, and the excavations that later pulled major statues from the rubble. Walk the underground tunnels where the furnaces once burned before the guide tells you how the water finally stopped.
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