Suburban Baths (Pompeii)
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The Suburban Baths are a building in Pompeii, Italy, a town in the Italian region of Campania that was buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, which consequently preserved it.
Suburban baths near the Porta Marina
Heated pool next to caldarium
Nymphaeum with waterfall cascades in frigidarium
The dressing room in the suburban baths. It is thought that a wooden shelf may have extended along two of these walls and that on this shelf were placed boxes were bathers could place their clothes.
Palaestra
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A palaestra or palestra was any site of a Greek wrestling school in antiquity. Events requiring little space, such as boxing and wrestling, occurred there. Palaistrai functioned both independently and
Suburban Baths (Pompeii)
…century AD: "single-axis row" type (with rooms in a linear increasingly warm arrangement promoting a particular route through the baths and bordering a palaestra), large windows facing southwest, and an outdoor pool with a fountain. Construction was first limited to the apodyterium (dressing room), frigidarium…
The palaestra at Olympia, Greece