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Baths. The chief monument of the lowest section
of the town - the S.E. division - is the great imperial
bath covering about 2500 sq. meters. It adjoins
the castellum of a great aqueduct that has
but one rival in the world - that of the Emperor Claudius
in Rome. This carried through the angle
of the city in high arches to the S. W. to the hills
where was a large supply of water and a
great reservoir.

A considerable portion of the baths is well
preserved up to the spring of the massive
vaults of Roman masonry - one large chamber
in the N.W. angle preserves its vault complete.

It is not difficult to trace a complete
ground plan in the existing ruins.
There are ample rooms for caldarium,
frigidarium and tepidarium but without excavation
it will be difficult to determine absolutely
which is which. The walls are constructed
of a coarse Roman concrete faced with
regular courses of small stones, quadrated
but not finished on the surface.

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Baths. The chief monument of the lowest section
of the town - the S.E. division - is the great imperial
bath covering about 2500 sq. meters. It adjoins
the castellum of a great aqueduct that has
but one rival in the world - that of the Emperor Claudius
in Rome. This carried through the angle
of the city in high arches to the S. W. to the hills
where was a large supply of water and a
great reservoir.

A considerable portion of the baths is well
preserved up to the spring of the massive
vaults of Roman masonry - one large chamber
in the N.W. angle preserves its vault complete.

It is not difficult to trace a complete
ground plan in the existing ruins.
There are ample rooms for caldarium, frigid-
arium and tepidarium but without excavation
it will be difficult to determine absolutely
which is which. The walls are constructed
of a coarse Roman concrete faced with
regular courses of small stones, quadrated
but not finished on the surface.