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May 10, 2022

History of Rome in 15 Buildings 08. The Baths of Caracalla

Filed under: Architecture, Europe, History — Tags: , , , , — Nicholas @ 02:00

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Published 27 Sep 2018

Every day, ten thousand bathers and over a million gallons of water were funneled through the Baths of Caracalla, the subject of this eighth episode in our History of Rome. The astonishing scale of the Baths indicates the power of two Roman obsessions: imperial propaganda and public bathing.

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