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.
Aqua Augusta (Naples)
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The Aqua Augusta, or Serino Aqueduct, was one of the largest, most complex and costliest aqueduct systems in the Roman world; it supplied water to at least eight ancient cities in the Bay of Naples in
Suburban Baths (Pompeii)
…role after the town became a Roman colony. The baths also benefitted from the increased supply of running water after the connection of the city to the Aqua Augusta aqueduct in 30–20 BC. The bathhouse was renovated after the earthquake of 62 AD, when a piscina calida, a heated swimming pool, was added to the north…
End of the aqueduct at Cape Misenum
Twin aqueduct tunnels at Pozzuoli
At the Crypta Neapolitana Roman road tunnel
The spur from the Aqua Augusta entering the castellum aquae in Pompeii