Baths of Caracalla
In the Baths of Caracalla—Terme di Caracalla, also called the Caracalla-Thermen—Rome once had its second-largest public bath complex, after the Baths of Diocletian. Work was likely begun under Septimius Severus and finished under his son Caracalla, with the baths inaugurated in AD 216. The complex was built in Rome’s southern district, the Regio XII Piscina Publica, on land that had belonged to the horti Asiniani, a garden estate associated with Gaius Asinius Pollio in Augustus’s time. Here’s the twist: when Caracalla took over the site, older buildings—including a noble domus—were sometimes demolished down to their ground floors, filled in with earth, and folded into the foundations of the new thermae. The Baths of Caracalla stayed in use until the 530s, and then they fell into ruin and disuse—so the place that once drew crowds is now an archaeological attraction and a national heritage site, overseen by the Ministero della cultura. …
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