DESCRIPTION

The Roman Baths complex is a site of historical interest in the English city of
Bath. The house is a well-preserved Roman site for public bathing.The Roman
Baths themselves are below the modern street level. There are four main
features: the Sacred Spring, the Roman Temple, the Roman Bath House and
the Museum, holding finds from Roman Bath. The buildings above street level
date from the 19th century.The Baths are a major tourist attraction and,
together with the Grand Pump Room, receive more than one million visitors a
year.And debates are also conducted here that includes news reports and etc.
The water which bubbles up from the ground at Bath falls as rain on the
nearby Mendip Hills. It percolates down through limestone aquifers to a depth
of between 2,700 and 4,300 metres (8,900 and 14,100 ft) where geothermal
energy raises the water temperature to between 69 and 96 °C (156.2 and
204.8 °F).

SIGNIFICANCE
The universal acceptance of bathing as a central event in daily life belongs to
the Roman world and till now, and it is hardly an exaggeration to say that at
the height of the empire, the baths embodied the ideal Roman way of urban
life. Apart from their normal hygienic functions, they provided facilities for
sports and recreation. Their public nature created the proper
environment—much like a city club or community center—for social
intercourse varying from neighborhood gossip to business discussions.
Obviously they were used for bathing but they had many other uses, for
example the social use of the baths was very important to the Romans. The
baths were very important to Roman society And ofcourse to the world that
this temple has widely given people lots of memories you can release , this we
can tell purely on the amount of baths there was in the Roman Empire and the
grand scale of the baths that the emperors built for example the Diocletian
baths.
The Romans constructed numerous aqueducts in order to bring water from
often distant sources into cities and towns, supplying public baths, latrines,
fountains and private households. Aqueducts also provided water for mining
operations, milling, farms and gardens.Aqueducts moved water through
gravity alone, along a slight downward gradient within conduits of stone,
brick or concrete. Most conduits were buried beneath the ground, and
followed the contours of the terrain; obstructing peaks were circumvented or,
less often, tunneled through. Where valleys or lowlands intervened, the
conduit was carried on bridgework, or its contents fed into high-pressure
lead, ceramic or stone pipes and siphoned across. Most aqueduct systems
included sedimentation tanks, which helped reduce any water-borne debris.

While the Romans learned most of their medical knowledge from Egypt,
Greece, and other countries that they conquered, their own contributions
involved sanitation and public health. Roman engineers built aqueducts to
carry pure water to residents of Rome, a sewage system to dispose of human
wastes, and public baths. These measures helped to prevent infectious
diseases transmitted by contaminated water. the aqueduct system
constructed by the ancient Romans was probably the most extensive in the
ancient world. The first to be built by the Romans, Aqua Appia, was an
underground aqueduct about 10 mi long. It was built during the
administration of Appius Claudius Caecus, for whom the Appian Way is
named, around 310 BC. The Aqua Marcian in Rome, about 56 mi long and built
by the praetor Marcius in 144 BC, was the first Roman aqueduct to carry
water above ground. The bridged section of this aqueduct was about 10 mi
long.

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IAN GILLAN A. RADISLAO Christine joy b. zamudio

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JOSEPHINE P. VICENTE JOSEPHINE P. VICENTE

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