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Regio
IX
Central
Baths
The Central Baths occupy
the whole block (insula) at
the crossing between Via
di Nola and Via
di Stabia. They were built within the framework of urban
renewal carried out in the city after the earthquake of 62 A.D..
For this reason the baths reflect more modern
architectual concepts.
They are completely made of brick and have a single thermal facility
which is not divided into men's and women's sectors. The distribution
of the halls shows a broader sense of space and organic unity. The
entrance leads first to the gymnasium, then to the dressing-room (apodyterium)
with the circular cold-water bathing pool, subsequently to the lukewarm
room (tepidarium) and finally
to the hot-room (calidarium).
A new element is represented by the sauna,
a circular room with four niches (laconicum).
Light entered into the rooms through large glass windows. The
construction of the facility was still in progress when the volcano
erupted.
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Central
Baths
| House
of Marcus Lucretius
House
of M. Epidio Rufo
| Workshop
of Verecundus
Thermopolium
of the Asellinæ
| House
of Gaius Julius Polybius
House
of Obellius Firmus
| House
of the Centenary
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