He built the last aqueduct of ancient Rome, the 22 km long Aqua Alexandrina to supply his enlargement of the Thermae of Nero which have been renamed after the emperor ( Thermae Alexandrinae ).

The new town of Thermae or Therma, called for the sake of distinction Thermae Himerenses, which thus took the place of Himera, obviously derived its name from the hot springs for which it was celebrated, and the first discovery of which was connected by legends with the wanderings of Hercules.

The Thermae Selinuntiae ( at modern Sciacca ), which derived their name from the ancient city, and seem to have been much frequented in the time of the Romans, were situated at a considerable distance, 30 km, from Selinunte: they are sulfurous springs, still much valued for their medical properties, and dedicated, like most thermal waters in Sicily, to San Calogero.

Most Roman cities had at least one Thermae, which were centers of public bathing and socialization.

During his reign, he proceeded with several building projects in Rome, " including the Thermae Deciane or Baths of Decius on the Aventine ", which was completed in 252 and survived through to the 16th century ; Decius also acted to repair the Colosseum, which had been damaged by lightning strikes.

Thermae Bath Spa eventually opened to the public on 7 August 2006, ending a 28-year period during which the waters remained unavailable for bathing.

Diodorus gives a somewhat different account of the foundation of Thermae, which he represents as established by the Carthaginians themselves before the close of the war, in 407 BCE.

The new town of Thermae or Therma called for the sake of distinction Thermae Himerenses, which thus took the place of Himera, obviously derived its name from the hot springs for which it was celebrated, and the first discovery of which was connected by legends with the wanderings of Hercules.

Because of extensive remains, no doubt can therefore exist with regard to the site of Thermae, which would be, indeed, sufficiently marked by the hot springs themselves ; but the exact position of the more ancient city of Himera was a subject of controversy until recent times.

On this supposition the inhabitants merely removed from one bank of the river to the other ; and this would readily explain the passages in which Himera and Thermae appear to be regarded as identical, and where the river Himera ( which unquestionably gave name to the older city ) is represented at the same time as flowing by Thermae.

Those who survived the devastation promptly repaired to a site then called " Thermae "-the name deriving from the hot springs-which is today known as Termini ; and the ancients considered Thermae as a successor to Himera.

The explanation of this difficulty is furnished by Cicero, who tells us that, after the destruction of Himera, those citizens who had survived the calamity of the war established themselves at Thermae, within the confines of the same territory, and not far from their old town.

How completely, even at a much later period, the one city was regarded as the representative of the other, appears from the statement of Cicero, that when Scipio Africanus, after the capture of Carthage, restored to the Agrigentines and Gelenses the statues that had been carried off from their respective cities, he at the same time restored to the citizens of Thermae those that had been taken from Himera.

Sciacca ( Greek: ; Latin: Thermae Selinuntinae, Thermae Selinuntiae, Thermae, Aquae Labrodes and Aquae Labodes ), also Schiacca, is a town and comune in the province of Agrigento on the southwestern coast of Sicily.

In antiquity a town called Thermae (, hot springs ) existed in site.

* Thermae Bath Spa, a modern ( 2006 ) spa supplied by the hot springs

Thermae was founded in the 5th century BCE by the Greeks, as its name imports, as a thermal spa for Selinunte, whose citizens came there to bathe in the sulphurous springs of Mount San Calogero, which rises up behind the town.

* The Baths of Caracalla in Rome are completed with public baths ( Thermae ), reading rooms, auditoriums, running tracks, and public gardens that cover 20 acres.

The Roman city, Odessus, first included into the Praefectura orae maritimae and then in 15 CE annexed to the province of Moesia ( later Moesia Inferior ), covered 47 hectares in present-day central Varna and had prominent public baths, Thermae, erected in the late 2nd century AD, now the largest Roman remains in Bulgaria ( the building was wide, long, and high ) and fourth-largest known Roman baths in Europe.

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

Thermae, balneae, balineae, balneum and balineum are all commonly translated as " bath " or " baths ".

: For Roman baths in general, see Thermae.

Remains of the Thermae | public baths, known as " The Old Work "

The Baths of Diocletian ( Thermae Diocletiani ) in Rome were the grandest of the public baths, or thermae built by successive emperors.

The Baths of Titus were public baths ( Thermae ) built in Rome in 81 by Emperor Titus.

Thermae Titi or Titus ' baths were built in haste, possibly by converting an existing or partly built bathing complex belonging to the reviled Domus Aurea.

The discovery of numerous Roman remains attests the antiquity of the baths, which are identified with the Onesiorum Thermae of Strabo.

The Thermae opened in 2007, complementing peat pulp as traditional resort aspect by mineral water ( Desiderius-Quelle ).

It seems to have received a colony in the time of Augustus, whence we find mention in inscriptions of the Ordo et Populus splendidissimae Coloniae Augustae Himeraeorum Thermitanorum: and there can be very little doubt that the Thermae colonia of Pliny in reality refers to this town, though he evidently understood it to be Thermae Selinuntiae ( modern Sciacca ), as he places it on the south coast between Agrigentum ( modern Agrigento ) and Selinus There are little subsequent account of Thermae ; but, as its name is found in Ptolemy and the Itineraries, it appears to have continued in existence throughout the period of the Roman Empire, and probably never ceased to be inhabited, as the modern town of Termini Imerese retains the ancient site as well as name.

There is little subsequent account of Thermae ; but, as its name is found in Ptolemy and the Itineraries, it appears to have continued in existence throughout the period of the Roman Empire, and probably never ceased to be inhabited, as the modern town of Termini Imerese retains the ancient site as well as name.

Nor even under the Romans did the place attain to anything like the same importance with the northern Thermae ; and there is little doubt that Pliny is mistaken in assigning the rank of a colonia to the southern instead of the northern town of the name.

It seems to have received a colony in the time of Augustus, whence we find mention in inscriptions of the Ordo et Populus splendidissimae Coloniae Augustae Himeraeorum Thermitanorum: and there can be little doubt that the Thermae colonia of Pliny in reality refers to this town, though he evidently understood it to be Thermae Selinuntiae ( modern Sciacca ), as he places it on the south coast between Agrigentum and Selinus.

* The Carthaginians under Hamilcar take advantage of their victory at Thermae in Sicily by counterattacking the Romans and seizing Enna.

Ikaria, in the 6th century BC, became part of Polycrates ' sea empire, and, in the 5th century BC, the Ikarian cities of Oenoe and Thermae were members of the Athenian-dominated Delian League.

In the time of Cicero, Thermae appears to have been a flourishing place, carrying on a considerable amount of trade, though the orator speaks, of it as oppidum non maximum.

In the time of Cicero, Thermae appears to have been a flourishing place, carrying on a considerable amount of trade, though the orator speaks, of it as oppidum non maximum.

Thermae usually refers to the large imperial bath complexes, while balneae were smaller-scale facilities, public or private, that existed in great numbers throughout Rome.

In the north, the Romans, with their northern sea flank secured by their naval victory at Battle of Mylae, advanced toward Thermae.

* In the north of Sicily, the Romans, with their northern sea flank secured by their naval victory in the Battle of Mylae, advance toward Thermae.

The celebrity of Baden dates back to the days of the Romans, who knew it by the name of Thermae Pannonicae, and remains of their occupation still exist.

Amid opposition declarations to indicate a timeline for the reconstruction of the spa, by 2011, the Regional indicated their intention to expropriate lands necessary to " re-qualify and reactivate " the Thermae of Varadouro ( suggestinga that only 10 % had not been acquired ).