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Curl Curl Baths at sunrise.
Single shot panorama using a fisheye lens. See, they are good for something if you can keep the horizon in the middle of the frame!
Maquetes de la Catalunya romana i d'edificis del món clà ssic elaborades per l'alumnat de l'IES Rafael Casanova de Sant Boi de Llobregat sota el guiatge de la professora Conxita Collellmir, actualment hostatjades en el Camp d’aprenentatge de la ciutat de Tarragona. Foto de l'arxiu de Conxita Collellmir.
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Model of the Roman baths of Sant Boi, created by secondary school students (teacher: Conxita Collellmir), now hosted by Camp d’aprenentatge de la ciutat de Tarragona. Photo: Conxita Collellmir's archive.
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.
Sulfur baths / TbilisiThe sulphur baths are intimately connected with Tbilisi. It is said that the hot springs are why the city was built here. High in sulphurs and other minerals, with a constant temperature of 38C to 40C, the waters have long been used as a therapeutic aid for a range of ailments including skin conditions and arthritis.
Naturally fed public sulphur baths have been essential part of life in Tbilisi for centuries. Citizens would spend their leisure time relaxing here, even giving formal dinner-parties in the baths. The local match-makers could sometimes be bribed to allow illicit glimpses of naked bodies.
Alexander Pushkin was just one of many famous people to have taken the waters, and he certainly enjoyed the experience: 'I have never encountered anything more luxurious than this Tbilisi bath', he wrote.
Located on Abano (bath) Street the underground public bath houses in use today are characterised from the outside by their rows of low cupola. The oldest is Erekle's Bath, whilst the most externally ornate is 'Chreli Abano' with its towering facade of decorated tiles.
Built 1931 and 1938
Refurbishment 2010 - 2012
Norman Street, near Old Street, St Lukes area, London EC1
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/jan/2025
Before heading to the 25th London Flickr Group Walk (Marylebone/West End)
The Hadrianic Baths
The baths were built in the early 2nd century AD and dedicated to the emperor Hadrian (ruled AD 117-138). They are located at the west end of the South Agora and consist of two main parts: a series of barrel-vaulted bathing chambers and a great colonnaded forecourt with grand marble architecture. The complex contains changing rooms for men and women, a cold room, lukewarm room, and hot room. The vaulted chambers are built of massive limestone blocks covered with marble revetment; the floors and pools are lined with marble, and the hot rooms have floors raised on hypocausts. The massive limestone walls have been standing since antiquity, and the inside of the chambers and the forecourt were excavated in 1904-5 and in the 1960s.
Aphrodisias, Turkey
One of the granite boulders at the Baths National Parks, Virgin Gorda created by volcanic activity and years of erosion.
Title: Baths at Woolloomooloo (NSW)
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The turnstile at Szechenyi Baths where you need to swipe your wrist band (the flexible silicon band equipped with a chip is your ticket or entrance card). More info about Szechenyi Baths: szechenyispabaths.com/
This is part of the exhedra behind the "imperial box" part of the stadium garden on the Palatine. This was the first time I'd ever seen this section, which has just been opened to the public.
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.
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The imposing structure is one of the most monumental archeological buildings in Rome. The ruins are enormous and are very well preserved with many mosaics still partially intact. Historical sources suggest that the interiors were decorated with colored marble flooring, painted stuccoes, great statues and huge marble columns.
Built in Rome between AD 211 and 216, the baths remained in use until the 6th century, heated by a system of burning coal and wood in a huge furnace underneath the ground to heat water provided by an aqueduct. Like all bathhouses in ancient Rome, it included three bathing rooms: the frigidarium (cold), tepidarium (lukewarm), and the calidarium (hot) – the closer to the furnace, the hotter the pools.
Aside the baths, there were spaces for exercise (palaestras), large mosaics decorating the walls of masculine forms flourishing leaden weights or wrestling mythological beasties.
If you’re ever in Rome, it only costs € 6 to enter! Worth it.
Rome, Italy.
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Taken from a vantage point in Ashton-under-Lyne of the old Ashton baths and surrounding St Peter's Fields developements.
Carthage, the Roman baths of Antoninus Pius. Sunday November 3, 1974.
After a tour of Tunis in the morning, followed by lunch on a nearby beach, the afternoon involved a visit to the pretty clifftop village of Sidi Bou Said and finally to the Antonine Baths at Carthage. Even though I'd dropped history at the first opportunity, it was impossible not to be impressed with the ruins here.
A digital copy of a 35mm Agfa CT-18 film transparency.
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...
The Arab Baths date back to a period between the 10th and 12th centuries, and were built based on antique elements and by recycling capitals from previous periods (Muslim, Byzantine and Roman capitals). The Arab Baths are perfectly integrated in the gardens of the former orchard of the manor house Can Fontirroig.
They were probably part of a nobleman's house and are similar to those found in other Islamic cities. The tepidarium has a dome in the shape of a half orange, with 25 round shafts for sun light, supported by a dozen columns.
Notice how each of the columns is different - they were probably salvaged from the ruins of various Roman buildings, an early example of recycling. Hammams were meeting-places as well as wash-houses, and the courtyard with its cactus, palm and orange trees would have made a pleasant place to cool off after a hot bath.
Roman Baths Museum, Bath.
Tombstone,
Relief of a man wearing a short tunic and a cloak. In his right hand he holds what appears to be a standard ; in his left a scroll.
Found built into the town wall near the North Gate in 1803.
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...
A scan of one of my dad's old negatives showing the Lee Baths in Cork, Ireland during the mid 1950's.
The Lee Baths were open air swimming pools that operated from 1934 up until 1986.
A scan of one of my dad's old negatives showing the Lee Baths in Cork, Ireland during the mid 1950's.
The Lee Baths were open air swimming pools that operated from 1934 up until 1986.
Visited the Sutro Baths and had to take a photo from both sides of it! This is taken facing eastward. This tourist spot has a surprising amount of San Francisco history behind it - look it up sometime!