Roman+Baths

A Roman bath is a historical site of an old public bathhouse. A place where people met to talk, bathe, and be social in Ancient Rome.The baths are best being famous for the most social place in Ancient Rome. The baths are also a very famous tourist attraction. In 2009, 1,037,518 people went to the Roman Baths to visit. Think about the modern street level, well, the baths themselves are below the modern day street levels. The four most famous attractions or features of the Roman Baths are: the Sacred Spring, the Roman Temple, the Roman Bath House and the Museum holding all the artifacts or finds from Roman Bath. Many Ancient Romans built the Roman Baths.

The fundamental part of the Roman Baths is the sacred spring. The temperature of hot water has been rising every day for thousands of years. The ancients believed this could only be the work of the gods. Dedicated to the goddess Sulis, the first bath was made by the Celts. Eventually, more bathing complexes were built in different temples. Visitors from the Roman Empire became attracted to the healing powers of the goddess and the mineral-rich spring water and the baths became very popular.

Some things that happened in or at the Roman Baths: The Romans built shrines,and the first shrine found by the hot springs. Was built by Celts, and dedicated that shrine to the goddess Sulis, and the Romans identified Sulis as Minerva. The baths were also part legends written by G eoffrey of Monmouth about ancient Britain. In Geoffrey's story, the spring was discovered in 836 BC by the British king Bladud, who then built the first baths. Early in the 18th century Geoffrey's peculiar legend was given great prominence as a royal endorsement of the waters' qualities, with the embellishment that the spring had cured Bladud and his herd of pigs of Leprosy through wallowing in the warm mud.

The remains of the Romans' Great Bath House is still there, but a fter the Roman withdrawal, the baths were lost due to silting up. At the end of the 18th century, the Georgian building was constructed. The baths would be unsafe to use because the water has passed through lead pipes built by the Romans. In 1978, amoeba in the water caused diseases to spread to those who had contact with it. Today the building has been turned into a museum containing all the ancient artifacts archaeologists found while uncovering the site. You can see more than 12,000 Roman coins found in the Sacred Spring ,which are believed to be offerings to the goddess, a gilt bronze head of the goddess Sulis which was discovered around 1727 and is now displayed above the pillars in the front of the building, and various stones used in the bath's sweat rooms.

Even though the bath is not safe for us to use today, in 2004, a special Thermae Bath Spa and refurbished Cross Bath were created so modern-day people could experience the water for themselves. This idea was designed by Nicholas Grimshaw and Partners by using a series of more recently- drilled boreholes.