Stabian Baths
Have been reopened to the public after restoration the Stabian Baths, offering also visited the women's section, never before open to the public. The restoration has affected not only the structures and decorations but covers steel and polycarbonate have been returned to the volumes of thermal environments allowing for a more complete reading of the spa facilities. The visit is "guided" by a system of bridges in steel and wood, to protect the pavement structures, which allow an analytical reading of the thermal system and sophisticated technique for riscaldanmento environments. The overall structure of Stabian Baths dating from the second century BC, with additions and renovations in the early years of the colony (80-70 BC). The premises for the bathroom, divided into a men's section and a femminie, line up on the east side of a gym, arcades on three sides, in a pattern common to all the spas of this period.
A vestibule which opens the rotunda of the frigidarium (room with bath for the cold bath), introduces large apodyterium (dressing room), from which it passed to the tepidarium (room temperature moderate) and thence to the caldarium (room for the bathroom hot).
The local furnaces for the production of hot water was placed between the two sections of the caldarium, so you can better heat both through an ingenious system of heating the floor resting on suspensurae and walls with concameratio (spaces) allowed the passage of 'hot air produced from the furnaces. The courtyard, used as a gym for exercise, on the west side has a dressing room, rooms for washing and natatio (pool). The wall has a beautiful stucco polychrome IV style, with architecture and panels with mythological figures (Jupiter, Hercules, Satyrs) and athletes. The thermal baths are not the civil largest in the city, but for the elegant decorations and the good condition of the caldarium and tepidarium, are a must in our visit to Pompeii.
The Baths were divided into two parts, one for men and one for women. In the section dedicated to men, greater than that of women, two corridors lead us into the dressing room (apodyterium) from where it passes into frigidarium, who in the middle of a circular pool for cold baths, and the tepidarium, adorned with splendid stucco of the second half of the first century AD, in this environment is preserved a large brazier, donated by Marcus Nigidius Vaccula, which serve to heat the room. From the tepidarium is accessed directly in the steam bath, heated by hot air passing inside the double walls for hot baths. In the room there are two tanks, the alveus for hot baths and cold baths to the labrum.
The entrance to the women's section leads directly nell'apodyterium free niches in which to put your clothes. There is instead the tank for cold water of the frigidarium. Passing through the tepidarium enter the caldarium, the hot niche in the east wall, next to praefornium, and the labrum, the basin to humidify the environment, placed in the niche of the bottom.
When You book a Pompeii tour Pompeii tour, with us You'll realize how beautiful and magic this city is.
A vestibule which opens the rotunda of the frigidarium (room with bath for the cold bath), introduces large apodyterium (dressing room), from which it passed to the tepidarium (room temperature moderate) and thence to the caldarium (room for the bathroom hot).
The local furnaces for the production of hot water was placed between the two sections of the caldarium, so you can better heat both through an ingenious system of heating the floor resting on suspensurae and walls with concameratio (spaces) allowed the passage of 'hot air produced from the furnaces. The courtyard, used as a gym for exercise, on the west side has a dressing room, rooms for washing and natatio (pool). The wall has a beautiful stucco polychrome IV style, with architecture and panels with mythological figures (Jupiter, Hercules, Satyrs) and athletes. The thermal baths are not the civil largest in the city, but for the elegant decorations and the good condition of the caldarium and tepidarium, are a must in our visit to Pompeii.
The Baths were divided into two parts, one for men and one for women. In the section dedicated to men, greater than that of women, two corridors lead us into the dressing room (apodyterium) from where it passes into frigidarium, who in the middle of a circular pool for cold baths, and the tepidarium, adorned with splendid stucco of the second half of the first century AD, in this environment is preserved a large brazier, donated by Marcus Nigidius Vaccula, which serve to heat the room. From the tepidarium is accessed directly in the steam bath, heated by hot air passing inside the double walls for hot baths. In the room there are two tanks, the alveus for hot baths and cold baths to the labrum.
The entrance to the women's section leads directly nell'apodyterium free niches in which to put your clothes. There is instead the tank for cold water of the frigidarium. Passing through the tepidarium enter the caldarium, the hot niche in the east wall, next to praefornium, and the labrum, the basin to humidify the environment, placed in the niche of the bottom.
When You book a Pompeii tour Pompeii tour, with us You'll realize how beautiful and magic this city is.
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