Terme
Terme are the great public baths of imperial Rome, complexes with pools, gyms, gardens and libraries. The Baths of Caracalla and the Baths of Diocletian are the two that can be visited.
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The Baths of Caracalla were inaugurated in 216 AD and the scale of the surviving walls is the reason the site works as a visit even without its roofs.
Sources: soprintendenzaspecialeroma.it
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