The baths were known to the Romans as Aponi fons or Aquae Patavinae.

Crossing the Aniene and turning to the right, the path rises along the left face off the ravine and soon reaches the site of Nero's villa and of the huge mole which formed the lower end of the middle lake ; across the valley were ruins of the Roman baths, of which a few great arches and detached masses of wall still stand.

These pools and baths were said to have magical powers, and imparted the ability to communicate to Apollo himself.

in the course of the Nika Riot, “ The temple of Sophia, the baths of Zeuxippus, and the imperial courtyard from the Propylaia all the way to the so-called House of Ares were burned up and destroyed, as were both of the great porticos that lead to the forum that is named after Constantine, houses of prosperous people, and a great deal of other properties .” The warring factions of Byzantine society, the Blues and the Greens, opposed each other in the chariot races at the Hippodrome and often resorted to violence.

The major cities featured baths, interior plumbing, and other advanced hygienic tools which were lacking in most other cities and towns throughout the world.

Most of the large Roman baths were also cultural centres, built from the start with a library, a two room arrangement with one room for Greek and one for Latin texts.

Relations between women who lived in harems, and fears of women being sexually intimate in Turkish baths were expressed in writings by men.

During this time the Greek theatre, the forum, Basilicas A and B, the baths and the walls were excavated.

The city's famous Stone Bridge was also reconstructed during this period and the Daut Pasha baths were built at the end of the 15th century.

These baths were a spa-like facility designed for members of Congress and their guests before many buildings in the city had modern plumbing.

Icelanders were known to use natural hot springs as baths, and there is a strong sauna / bathing culture in Scandinavia to this day.

As a result, many historic buildings were demolished, including churches, mosques, the Persian fortress, baths, bazaars and caravanserais.

His philanthropic and economic interests were extensive and varied: he endeavored to secure relief for the people oppressed with taxation ; he divided his inheritance among the poor ; from his episcopal revenues he erected baths, bridges, halls, and aqueducts ; he summoned rhetoricians and physicians, and reminded the officials of their duties.

Gérôme was the precursor, and often the master, of a number of French painters in the later part of the century whose works were often frankly salacious, frequently featuring scenes in harems, public baths and slave auctions ( the last two also available with classical decor ), and responsible, with others, for " the equation of Orientalism with the nude in pornographic mode ".

A magnificent palace, pagan temples, ruler's residence, fortress, citadel, water mains and baths were built in the Bulgarian capital Pliska, mainly of stone and brick.

This demand had no official weight, however, and Constantine appears to have attempted to make peace with Theodore and Platon ( who, on account of his marriage, were now his relatives ), inviting them to visit him during a sojourn at the imperial baths of Prusa in Bithynia.

There were even baths at one of the villages, besides the great baths of brick in each city.

Electroplating baths and equipment based on the patents of the Elkingtons were scaled up to accommodate the plating of numerous large scale objects and for specific manufacturing and engineering applications.

Remains of Roman baths, built in the 1st century and demolished in the 3rd century, were laid bare in 1877.

In 1784, well-preserved Roman baths were discovered here.

Public baths ( hamam ), and fountains were a feature of the Turkish city.

Sinan was entrusted by Sultan Selim II to rebuild the destroyed parts, which he did, expanding them, as well as the Harem, baths, the Privy Chamber and various shoreline pavilions.

The earthquake and the subsequent fire destroyed most baths in the Tokyo area.

The pagan temple in the city centre was destroyed, but the nymphaeum and Roman baths were restored.

Then the baths were destroyed in 1998 by severe weather, only to be rebuilt after great institutional and financial stress.

The baths remained in use until the 6th century when the complex was taken by the Ostrogoths during the Gothic War, at which time the hydraulic installations were destroyed.

As the baths lay across the Seine river on the left bank and were unprotected by defensive fortifications, they were easy prey to roving barbarian groups who apparently destroyed the bath complex sometime at the end of the 3rd century.

In 1553 they established the sanjak of Szolnok, and in the following years built a mosque, baths, and a minaret ; during the course of later battles these were destroyed, mostly deliberately.

The decline of the Roman Empire in the west, beginning in AD 337 after the death of Emperor Constantine, resulted in Roman legions abandoning their outlying provinces and leaving the baths to be taken over by the local population or destroyed.

The prototype units were purchased by a buyer from San Diego but they sat empty for another nine years until an interior designer renovated them and put in kitchens and baths, although at some point the kitchens and baths were destroyed and removed.

The bathing station was destroyed in the skirmishes of 1849, but Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph, on visiting the town in 1852, ordered the reconstruction of the baths.

His group destroyed many temples, including those to Hecate, Jupiter, Apollo, Artemis, and Isis, as well as the civil structures that were symbols of Rome, including the Caesareum, the basilica, and the public baths.

Another swore by vinegar baths for burns, and still another recommended salted butter.

Apart from the baths that are operated by hotels, Uludağ University has a physical therapy center which also makes use of thermal water.

He was impressed by the Great Wall of China near Beijing, but concluded of the Chinese: " They smell of all the baths they didn't take.

* There are remnants of a Roman wall in the old town and Roman baths by the river.

The club then merged with the Royal Southern and occupied that club's older premises which it had created from the regency public steam baths by the basin at West Hoe before the rejuvenated club moved in the late 1980s to Queen Anne Battery.

Afterward, he returned to the co-op, then worked as, among other things, a lorry driver, a lifeguard at Portobello swimming baths, a labourer, an artist's model for the Edinburgh College of Art, after a suggestion by former Mr. Scotland, Archie Brennan.

The fortress is built by Legio II Adiutrix and contains barracks, granaries, military baths and headquarters.

For example, if a citizen had his clothes stolen at the baths, he would write a curse, naming the suspects, on a tablet to be read by the Goddess Sulis Minerva.

Areas that are to be light in the final print are protected by varnishing between acid baths.

A wrought-iron aerial staircase is also to be found, closed to garden visitors, descending to the sea from the gardens, and used by the Greek Royal family as a shortcut to the baths.

A memorial erected in Como ( now CILV5279 ) repeats the terms of a will by which the aedile Lucius Caecilius Cilo, son of Lucius, established a fund, the interest of which was to buy oil ( used for soap ) for the baths of the people of Como.

The design of baths is discussed by Vitruvius in De Architectura.

* This is a full dissertation analyzing all of poetry of Eudocia, and a line by line explanation of the poem insribed on the baths.

The largest municipal building in Kentish Town is the St Pancras public baths, opened in 1900, designed by T. W.

However, one example that has not survived is the town's historic Victorian baths, which were replaced by a more modern sports and leisure centre in 2004.

Encolpius and his companions, by now wearied and disgusted, try to leave as the other guests proceed to the baths, but are prevented by a porter ( 72 ).

The Olympia Salon & Spa, located in the Martha Washington Sanitarium on Cass Ave, are rejuvenating the bath era by offering mineral baths once again.

* The Natural Baths, by Henry Currey, sit on the site of the original Roman baths.

Settlers were drawn by tales of the healing powers of the city's sulphur baths.

" Medieval church authorities believed that public bathing created an environment open to immorality and disease ; the 26 public baths of Paris in the late 13th century were strictly overseen by the civil authorities.

The Thermae were, however, used in common by males and females, although baths in other areas ( even within Pompeii ) were often segregated by sex.