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These pictures are (I'm pretty sure, but it's a bit hard to tell) of the Chiesa di S.Maria degli Angeli (Basilica of St. Mary of the Angels, at one time the official state church of the Kingdom of Italy and also designed by Michelangelo) and the ruins of the Baths of Diocletian among which the church was built.
The baths were the largest of the Imperial Baths of Rome, in use between 306 AD and 537 AD, when the aqueducts leading to them were cut off. They have been preserved relatively well, mostly because large parts of them were converted into churches. Today, the Octagonal Hall houses one of the sites of the National Museum of Rome.
Encompassing the beaches and rocky shoreline at the southwestern tip of Virgin Gorda, The Baths is a collection of massive granite boulders as large as 40 foot in diameter, with white sand beaches and secret rock pools.
The Roman Baths themselves are below the modern street level. There are four main features: the Sacred Spring, the Roman Temple, the Roman Bath House and the Museum holding finds from Roman Bath. The buildings above street level date from the 19th century.
The City of Bath was inscribed as a World Heritage Site in 1987.
Bath, England
October / November 1983
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Derelict for decades, it’s finally gone
along with its three-tiered diving tower
(all those impressions on the air)
that became a perch for gulls and gannets,
as history’s changing rooms –– wet towels,
slippery wooden slats, the chill
anticipated like a slap –– were refitted
with inflationary graffiti, nests of beer cans
and deep-pile, wall-to-wall sand ––
The gilt bronze head of the goddess Sulis Minerva is one of the best known objects from Roman Britain. Its discovery in 1727 was an early indication that the Roman site at Bath was not a typical settlement. Gilt bronze sculptures are rare finds from Roman Britain as only two other fragments are known.
The head is probably from the cult statue of the deity which would have stood within her Temple beside the Sacred Spring. From there she may have looked out across the Temple courtyard to the site of the great altar, the site of sacrifice, which stood at the heart of that sacred space. The statue may well be an original object from the foundation of the site in the later first century AD, which means that it was probably well over three hundred years old when it met its demise.
Abbey Church Yard, Bath.
Left...Roman Baths, Reception Hall, 1895-97.
By John McKean Brydon (1840-1901).
Right...Grand Pump Room, 1790-95.
By Thomas Baldwin (c1750-1820).
No, not HDR. This was shot the old fashioned way with good lighting with help of cloud and fog. Shot on a tripod. The foggy lighting was really blue so I used Hoya Moose's Filter to warm it up and the cloud got more apparent with the polarizer. Framing is tighter than Sutro Baths #2. Please see it large.
I just noticed something. When I signed in using my film channel account (non-pro), I cannot see this photo in original post size, which is 1800x1414 resolution.... The largest resolution I can see is 1024x818.... Interesting. My photos need to be seen larger than that to see the detail!!!
Reading in the Baths of Diocletian. ©2015 Light & Shadows Photography by Joseph Yarbrough - All Rights Reserved.
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Lucky break, we were at the baths, and the rocks were boring...then it started to rain, and that changed everything !
The rocks glowed, the water came alive, and extra people who were there fled for cover...how nice !
Roman Baths , Bath.
The Great Roman Bath, 1st century AD, with superstructure by John McKean Brydon, 1895-97.
Inside Virgin Gorda's The Baths, which is a pile of granite boulders producing amazing colors, incredible reflections, and one of the most challenging hikes on the island.
This is a photo of, essentially, a couple big rocks that have rolled together right on the water's edge. If you want to get a sense of scale, see this photo.
San Francisco's Sutro Baths ruins. This is the entrance to San Francisco Bay, and the Golden Gate Bridge is right around the corner on the right of the photo. For interesting info, visit: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutro_Baths
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.
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The Great Baths, seen from a nearby rise, complete with wild flowers.
For more on Hadrian's Villa (Villa Adriana locally), go and have a look at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadrian's_Villa or sights.seindal.dk/sight/901_Hadrians_Villa.html
The Baths were built onto the south side of the Library (Being renovated at the moment) and opened in 1907