Baths of Agrippa
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The Baths of Agrippa was a structure of ancient Rome, Italy, built by Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa. It was the first of the great thermae constructed in the city, and also the first public bath.
Plan of the Baths of Agrippa
Marble portrait head of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, currently in the Louvre
Marble copy of the Apoxyomenos of Lysippus (Pius Clementine Museum, Vatican)
The later Baths of Trajan showing the frigidarium (N), the tepidarium (F), and the caldarium (C), a form which became popular in the late Republic to early Principate. Whether or not the Baths of Agrippa were symmetrical remains unknown due to the scant archaeological evidence which has survived.
Aqua Virgo
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The Aqua Virgo was one of the eleven Roman aqueducts that supplied the city of ancient Rome. It was completed in 19 BC by Marcus Agrippa, during the reign of the emperor Augustus and was built mainly to supply the contemporaneous Baths of Agrippa in the Campus Martius.
Route of the Aqua Virgo
The only remains above ground, in via del Nazzareno
60 metres (200 ft) stretch of the aqueduct arches, recently found inside the Rinascente shopping complex
Modern day windlass used for an Anchor