Baths
Baths and spas, not being total ruins.
Connected Sites
| Site | Rationale | Link |
| Abu Mena | Roman baths | |
| Al-Ahsa Oasis | Remains of Turkish hammam in Al-Hofuf | |
| Aleppo | Various hammams | |
| Ambohimanga | Two large basins have been carved from the stone foundation of the compound. One was a bath for Andrianampoinimerina, and the other was a swimming pool for Ranavalona I. Water was taken from the sacred lake of Amparihy at the north of the village and was replaced weekly." Wiki The holy lake of Amparihy is artificial, its use being confined to royalty and ritual, such as the annual royal bath, princely circumcision, and the receipt of royal entrails. The bath is particularly symbolic, for then the king takes upon himself all the sins of the kingdom and, in ritually cleansing himself, both purifies his subjects and enables nature to regenerate." Nom File | |
| Ancient villages of Northern Syria | several | |
| Ani | Among the ruined monuments are the Royal Bathhouse (Seljuk Baths) and the Small Bathhouse | |
| Anjar | A hammam has been uncovered | |
| Aphrodisias | public baths dedicated to the emperor Hadrian (AB ev) | |
| Aquileia | Roman bath | |
| Archaeological site of Philippi | Balneum, part of the Octagon complex | |
| Arles | Constantine's Baths | |
| Asturian Monuments | Santa Maria del Naranco (former palace) | |
| Australian Convict Sites | Old Government House Bath House | |
| Bahla Fort | restored bathhouse in fort | |
| Blaenavon Industrial Landscape | On the hillside above the main buildings are the miners’ baths and canteen, opened in 1939, built in the International Modernist style favoured by the architects of the Miners’ Welfare Committee. It is the only baths building in Wales from the inter-war years which retains its hot-air lockers for drying clothes, shower cubicles, automated boot brushes, canteen, and medical rooms | |
| Bolgar | bath houses | |
| Budapest | Gellert, R?c and Sz?chenyi baths | |
| Bursa and Cumalikizik | Eski Kaplica (Old Turkish Bath) | |
| Butrint | Roman Baths | |
| Carthage | Roman baths | |
| Caves of Maresha and Bet Guvrin | public baths | |
| Chichen-Itza | Steam bath | |
| City of Bath | ||
| Cordoba | "Banos arabes" Wiki - "Many tourists visit the Arab baths, which were actually built under Alfonso XI" | |
| Dacian Limes | Roman public baths at Porolissum; Potaissa: the thermal baths, with an area of over 2,000 m2, are the biggest military thermae known in Dacia.(wiki) | |
| Damascus | hammam al-Nouri | |
| Danube Limes | Bad Gögging (ID No 1): "Substantial remains of the spa baths of legio III Italica were discovered here in the course of several excavation campaigns carried out between 1959 and 2007. The extensive building covered an area of at least 50 m by 36 m. It was formed by at least four building units, which housed numerous rooms with hypocaust heating, a steam room, several cold water pools and a 11 m by 8 m large central water basin with four to five hip‐baths attached to its north‐eastern wall." (Nomination file, p. 61) | |
| Derbent | Part of citadel, now museum | |
| Djémila | Vestiges of monuments that have marked the expansion of the city to the south are also included. They comprise private dwellings and public buildings such as the Arch of Caracalla, a theatre, baths, basilicas and other cult buildings. (AB ev) | |
| Dougga/Thugga | "Three Roman baths have been completely excavated at Dougga; a fourth has so far only been partially uncovered." (wiki) | |
| Erbil Citadel | Hammam | |
| Fasil Ghebbi | Baths of Fasiladas | |
| Florence | Piazza della Repubblica: "Foundations of a thermae complex on the south side and a religious building were found in the 19th-century demolition of the warren of medieval streets that had encroached upon the site. | |
| Frontiers of the Roman Empire | Hadrian's Wall: Roman Baths of Vindolanda | |
| Gamzigrad-Romuliana | Classical Roman baths | |
| Granada | Wiki - "Granada's public baths, like El Ba?uelo or the Alhambra Baths, and the complex of Arab public fountains and wells (aljibes), are unique in Europe." | |
| Great Spa Towns of Europe | ||
| Hierapolis-Pamukkale | Spa | |
| Historic Cairo | Hammam Behbel Bah Sharia | |
| Incense Route of the Negev | Moa, Mamshit, Sobota, Avdat | |
| Istanbul | Several historic hammams | |
| Itchan Kala | Anusha Khan baths | |
| Joya de Ceren | Sauna | |
| Karlskrona | Badhus at Skarva | |
| Kasbah of Algiers | The Kasbah counts various still functional hammams. (French Wiki) | |
| Kerkuane | " One of the most remarkable features of ancient Kerkouan is that almost all houses are equipped with elaborate bathrooms. Shoe-shaped bathtubs made from red concrete are the most typical model, with a seat for the bather." | |
| Lake District | Remains of a Bath House at Hardknott Roman Fort | |
| Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape | There used to be a vapour bath in the Wasserwerk. | |
| Leptis Magna | Roman baths | |
| Lower German Limes | The large thermal baths of Colonia Ulpia Traiana occupy an entire insula. They were examined in emergency excavations in 1957 and then buried. After the Archaeological Park was founded, it was exposed again with subsequent conservation. A protective structure was built over the foundation walls of the thermal baths, which imitates the ancient shape of the building and has housed the Roman Museum since 2008. (wiki) | |
| Machu Picchu | There are what are widely described as "Ceremonial" or "Ritual" baths at MP (16 in total) and at other sites within the Sanctuary -e.g Winay Wayna and Phuyupatamarca. Elsewhere these are merely described as "fountains" with their original purpose left unclear. see - | |
| Masada | Roman bath | |
| Medina Azahara | the city included ceremonial reception halls, mosques, administrative and government offices, gardens, a mint, workshops, barracks, residences and baths (wiki) | |
| Meknes | Ten hammams | |
| Meroe | Roman baths at Meroe city archaeological site | |
| Moenjodaro | Elaborate public bath | |
| Mostar | Hammam | |
| Mérida | Termas Romanas de Alange | |
| Naples | Byzantine bath in Santa Chiara | |
| National History Park | Citadelle Laferri?re bathing quarters | |
| Nessebar | thermal baths from the early Byzantine period | |
| Nice | Roman thermal baths at Cimiez | |
| Old City of Acre | Two bathhouses: the large Hammam El-Basha and the small Hammam built by Dahar El-Amar (both 18th century) | |
| Old City of Jerusalem | Two bath houses at the Cotton Market (inc. Hammam El-Ayn) | |
| Pergamon | Roman baths complex | |
| Pompei | Herculaneum | |
| Potsdam | Roman Baths in Sanssouci | |
| Provins | Les Vieux bains | |
| Pythagoreion and Heraion of Samos | public baths (Roman) (AB ev) | |
| Qhapaq Ñan | At Puente del Inca | |
| Quseir Amra | ||
| Rabat | 14 hammams in the medina, oldest dating from the 12th century (AB ev) | |
| Ravenna | Ancient Roman Bath turned into a baptismal font in the Neonian Baptistery | |
| Regensburg | Deischgasse 2 | |
| Rohtas Fort | The Shahi Baoli has small chambers that were used as baths by the Royal family. | |
| Rome | Baths of Caracalla, Bath of Diocletian, Bath of Titus, Bath of Trajan | |
| Safranbolu | Old Bath | |
| Saltaire | public baths | |
| San Agustín | ||
| Sana'a | ||
| Santa Ana de los Rios de Cuenca | Pumapongo Inca bath - systems of baths and pools for collecting water (nom file) | |
| Seville | Los Baños de Doña María de Padilla at the Alcazar | |
| Shakhrisyabz | "..the baths, rebuilt on the site of the 15th century baths and still in use today. The baths are heated by an elaborate network of underground conduits" (AB) | |
| Stone Town of Zanzibar | There are two sets of Persian baths in the Stone Town. The most elaborate are the Hamamni baths, built during the Sultanate of Seyyid Barghash (1870-88). | |
| Sulaiman-Too | Medieval bath-house (Hammam) | |
| Tabriz Bazaar | At present, there are four Hammāms inside bazaar complex including Seyyed Golābi Hammām. (nom file) | |
| Thessalonika | Byzantine baths in the Acropolis | |
| Tikal National Park | Ruins of a temazcal (steam bath) south of Group F | |
| Timgad | ||
| Tipasa | ||
| Trier | Imperial baths and Barbara baths | |
| Val d'Orcia | The spa towns of Bagni San Filippo and Bagno Vignoni (Nomination file, p. 74, 122) | |
| Val di Noto | Terme della Rotonda in Catania, "the remains of one of several Roman public baths in the city" | |
| Via Appia | "The Via Appia is also accompanied by a monumental ensemble of temples, funerary monuments, aqueducts and villas, and at city entrances, triumphal arches, gates or such amenities as theatres, amphitheatres or baths which all bear witness to an ancient civilisation." (AB ev) | |
| Villa Adriana (Tivoli) | ||
| Villa Romana del Casale | "The monumental entrance (...) opens into a courtyard, on to which faces the elaborate baths complex. The oval palaestra (exercise area) gives access to an impressive octagonal frigidarium (cold room) and thence through the tepidarium (warm room) out of which open three caldaria (hot baths). (AB Ev) | |
| Volubilis | ||
| Wadi Rum | the earliest hypocaust baths in Jordan, at The Nabataean temple at Rum (AB ev) | |
| Walled City of Baku | Hammams | |
| Wartburg Castle | Knights' Baths | |
| Xochicalco | one of the most magnificent temazcal (steam baths), located near the ball-court and used for purification in the ball-game ritual (AB ev) | |
| Yazd | hammams |
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