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This is an excellent place. Obviously, 19th century Budapest was much more civilised than 20th century Budapest, as people chose to spend their time building wonderful public thermal baths to hang out in rather than running around denouncing, arresting and liquidating each other.
I hope they have a decent 21st century to make up for the last one.
The Suburban Baths were built around the end of the 1st century BC against the city walls north of the Porta Marina. They served as a public bath house to the residents of Pompeii They were originally discovered in 1958 and have since been excavated and restored. Excavation of the Suburban Baths have given historians a glimpse into an aspect of the social and cultural workings of Roman life in Pompeii.
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I spent 4 days getting a photo of the baths as they were being filled after renovation. Taking a photo every 15 minutes. My favourite bit is the moonlight coming moving through on the first night.
The original plan was for a viewing at the reopening of the baths, but Southwark Council bureaucracy put paid to those plans.
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Swimmers acclimatise in ice baths at I&J in preparation for the Speedo Ice Swim Africa which will take place on 17th July in Nuwedam, Fraserburg in the Northern Cape, South Africa.
We visited the Roman Baths in Bath - amazing place. We last visited in 1998 and it was good to revisit such a place full of history.
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Roman Baths, Bath.
The overflow from the sacred spring continues to feed the Great Bath with 250,000 gallons of water a day, which maintains a constant temperatue of 46.5 degrees C.
A look at the main complex of what's left of the Baths of Caracalla. This is of course the backdrop of what was the first big "Three Tenors" (Pavarotti, Domingo, Carreras) event.
Part of the "Rome 2012" set.
This boulder looks amazing to me! It doesn't even look real! More like my photo is a painting than a photograph!! It was a very worthwhile trip to be able to say I was at this incredible location!
1866 Warrington's public baths were opened. They were bought by the council in 1873. Two more pools were added in 1912. As you can see in one of the photographs the police Force also used them as a training centre
One of the floor mosaics in the Terme Femminili in Herculaneum
The Terme del Foro (Forum Baths) in Herculaneum contains sections for both men and women.
The Terme Femminili (women's baths) are the better preserved of the two, with well preserved mosaic floors.
The Terme del Foro (Forum Baths) in Herculaneum contains sections for both men and women.
The Terme Femminili (women's baths) are the better preserved of the two, with well preserved mosaic floors.
Herculaneum (Ercolano) was the second town destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD. Not as famous as its near-neighbour Pompeii, the site is much smaller and more compact, but in parts better preserved by the ash and mud which swamped it.
The site is located just eight miles from Naples and is almost lost amid the run-down modern residential neighbourhood in which it is located. An exclusive residential settlement at the time of the eruption, the site contains many brilliantly preserved homes, shops and baths which were used by the approximate 5,000 residents.
Built 1931 and 1938
Refurbishment 2010 - 2012
Norman Street, near Old Street, St Lukes area, London EC1 UK
This was my local baths (swimming pool) when i was growing up. I learnt to swim here. My Dad was a part time swimming instructor.
It had a main swimming pool, the children's pool, and Victorian-style Turkish baths.
Taken 1/feb/2025
Before heading to the 25th London Flickr Group Walk (Marylebone/West End)
Edited under Adobe Lightroom
The Imperial Baths (Kaiserthermen) are a large Roman bath complex in the city of Trier. The facility was projected to become one of the grandest and most impressive baths in the Roman Empire. The construction started shortly before AD 300 and can be attributed to the emperor Constantius Chlorus (293-306), who moved his residence to Trier. In 316, work came to a sudden end and the baths were never finished. The emperors Gratian and Valentinian II used them as barracks for their life guards. The bath complex consists of two parts: the real baths (thermae) and the sports grounds located outside the enclosed buildings (palaestra). Today, the ruins of the bathing facility and the underground service tunnels can be visited.
One of the floor mosaics in the Terme Femminili in Herculaneum
The Terme del Foro (Forum Baths) in Herculaneum contains sections for both men and women.
The Terme Femminili (women's baths) are the better preserved of the two, with well preserved mosaic floors.
The Terme del Foro (Forum Baths) in Herculaneum contains sections for both men and women.
The Terme Femminili (women's baths) are the better preserved of the two, with well preserved mosaic floors.
Herculaneum (Ercolano) was the second town destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD. Not as famous as its near-neighbour Pompeii, the site is much smaller and more compact, but in parts better preserved by the ash and mud which swamped it.
The site is located just eight miles from Naples and is almost lost amid the run-down modern residential neighbourhood in which it is located. An exclusive residential settlement at the time of the eruption, the site contains many brilliantly preserved homes, shops and baths which were used by the approximate 5,000 residents.
Manchester
For 86 years, until its closure in 1993, the Victoria Baths provided both essential and leisure facilities. At the time of opening, few of the houses in the area had bathrooms so its 64 slipper baths or 'wash baths' were an important amenity and, between 1906 and 1993, Victoria Baths were used by thousands of people for swimming, bathing, washing, dancing and relaxing. The pool was the breeding ground for numerous swimming champions.
However changing social conditions and patterns of leisure activities meant the the Baths were less well-used and, as the Baths were expensive to run Manchester City Council could no longer justify (or afford) the costs to keep the building open and functioning and they were closed on 13 March 1993 despite local protests.
Ten years later, Manchester’s Victoria Baths won £3m of Heritage Lottery funding through the first BBC TV “Restoration” programme. Thousands of viewers voted for the beautiful building, now widely recognised as the most intact and lavish example of municipal swimming pool architecture in the country, to receive the funding and an additional £2million has been raised by the Victoria Baths Trust.
Five shots of this trail from Halls Gap following Stony Creek to Venus Baths - a natural "water feature".
HTT!
Szechenyi Baths Hairdryers - public hairdrying station at Szechenyi Baths, free to use, no need for Forint coins. More info about Szechenyi Baths: szechenyispabaths.com/
Visit to former Stirchley baths which have been empty for years (1987?). Local people were given the chance to see the state they are now in, and to discuss plans for their rebuilding (there are unpopular plans by TESCO to open a large store nearby and either they or the local Co-op would rebuild the baths into something else).
Bramley Baths is the only remaining Edwardian bath-house in Leeds and is Grade II listed. It first opened as a pool and public bath-house in 1904, enabling local residents to wash, swim and use the Russian Steam Baths, fashionable with the Edwardians as a healthy pastime. Originally a steel foundry, the building’s chimney can be seen from across Leeds.
In 2011 Leeds City Council, under budgetary pressures, invited expressions of interest to take over management of Bramley Baths. A group of residents and supportive local organisations worked together to write a business plan, raise funds and transfer Bramley Baths to the community. Bramley Baths became a not-for-profit, community-led, professionally-run enterprise and began a new era on 1st January 2013.
Since 2013 a professional staff team backed by many supporters and volunteers, have turned around the fortunes of this much-loved community space. In 2015, the Baths worked with Yorkshire Life Aquatic and Leeds College of Art to produce a performance underpinned by real memories of time spent there, and the relationship people have with Bramley Baths. An archive containing the memories supplied during this project is available to browse and enjoy. Dip into the Bramley Memory Aquarium to hear some wonderful memories and find out why people in West Leeds are so well connected to this building and what it represents...
This magnificent centrepiece of the Roman baths is a pool, lined with 45 sheets of lead, and filled with hot spa water.
It once stood in an enormous barrel-vaulted hall that rose to a height of 40 metres. For many Roman visitors this may have been the largest building they had ever entered in their life.
The bath is 1.6 metres deep which is ideal for bathing and has steps leading down on all sides. Niches around the baths would have held benches for bathers and possibly small tables for drinks or snacks.
The Baths have the only natural hot springs in the country, they developed the area around the thermal springs, building a reservoir to capture water, a temple and a lavish complex of baths, changing rooms and public spaces of the sort they were used to in the rest of the Empire.
The temple here was dedicated to Sulis Minerva, the conflation of Roman goddess Minerva with a local deity (the Roman name for the town was Aquae Sulis). A gilt bronze head of the goddess survives and can be seen in the museum at the Roman Baths, along with other fragments of sculpture and mosaics.
Baths & Leisure Centre, Creswell, Derbyshire, 1924.
Built by the Miners’ Welfare Fund in 1924 on a site donated by the Duke of Portland.
The baths were built in the time when Zanzibar was part of Oman, in the 1800s. Although the baths were open to both men and women, they had separate hours of admittance, open to women in the mornings and men in the afternoons. It was (and still is) customary for married Muslim men and women to rid themselves of all body hair; shaving vestibules were provided within the bathhouse.
featured in 48 Hours in Zanzibar at www.colloidfarl.blogspot.com/
Inside the Antonine Baths in Carthage, once the third biggest in the Roman Empire. They were built in the mid-second century AD and were destroyed by the Vandals in AD 439.
What is left standing today is what lay beneath the baths themselves and they are very big indeed.
Visit to former Stirchley baths which have been empty for years (1987?). Local people were given the chance to see the state they are now in, and to discuss plans for their rebuilding (there are unpopular plans by TESCO to open a large store nearby and either they or the local Co-op would rebuild the baths into something else).
The ancient settlement developed around several mineral-rich springs (rising at 46ºC), which the Celts believed to have healing powers. These were dedicated to Sulis, the Celtic goddess of healing and sacred waters.
When the Romans arrived, soon after their invasion in 43 AD, they built a great temple beside the Sacred Spring, dedicated to Sulis Minerva, a deity, a hybrid of Sulis and Minerva, the Roman goddess of wisdom.
The Romans built grand bathing complexes around the hot springs, including the Great Bath, and came here to relax and take advantage of their reputed healing powers.
From the 18th century onwards the Roman baths were gradually rediscovered and became one of the city's main attractions.
Sulphur Bath Houses
The bath district is called Abanotubani, and the baths are much more luxurious than I imagined. There are large public baths and smaller private rooms you can hire for you and your family. Each of the baths have a separate changing room with comfortable sofas to relax after your dip in hot hydrosulfuric water. The temperature of the water ranges from 38°C to 45°C, and we had the latter. Just sit in such water - and all diseases will be gone.
Long time ago the people not only washed themselves there but also socialized sometimes until dawn; and the city matchmakers arranged presentation of marriageable girls on special days. In the baths they threw parties, made deals.
Although Hiram Bingham thought these may have been ritual baths, it seems most likely that they were a feature of ritual worship of water. Phuyu Pata Marca, Inca Trail, Peru.
The Buckhorn Baths Motel located on Main Street in Mesa, Arizona. The motel is currently closed and is a threatened structure.
The motel was built in 1939 and became quite famous for its hot mineral baths. The motel was visited by many celebrities and professional baseball players.
The palm trees in the courtyard.