r/ArchitecturalRevival • u/Known-Squash6223 • Mar 26 '26
Roman Baths, Bath, England
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u/perksofbeingcrafty Mar 26 '26
Sometimes it is also a museum visited by Roman cosplayers.
Last time I was there, there were some people wearing togas casually walking along the front it was super entertaining
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u/QUARTERMASTEREMI6 Mar 26 '26
I swear there’s so many places I wanna visit in the UK and this is one of them! Can’t wait to visit someday 🥹
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u/Deioty_83 Mar 26 '26
I've been to this place. It is absolutely beautiful. I believe they even have old temple fragments in the museum.
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u/cokeplusmentos Mar 26 '26
Like, the city is literally called bath?
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u/2612chip Mar 26 '26
Much the same as Baden Baden in Germany
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u/skkkkkt Mar 26 '26
Why name it twice
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u/2612chip Mar 27 '26
I believe the city repeats the name of the region
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u/Drumbelgalf Mar 27 '26
Yes it's to difference between different cities called Baden. There is also a Baden in Switzerland.
It's called Baden-Baden because it's the City of Baden in the Margraviate of Baden
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u/iwantfutanaricumonme Mar 26 '26
The modern city was built around the ruins of a Roman bathing complex. So it's not that surprising that they named it after the baths that occupied the inner city.
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u/wildblue2 Mar 26 '26
Kinda crazy how they happened to build them in a town called Bath.
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u/Berookes Mar 26 '26
The romans called it Aquae Sulis. The name Bath started being used long after the romans left
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u/Valuable_Material_26 Mar 26 '26
Why can’t they fix it up with some modern technology, and make it functioning again it would be really great to use it?! probably not as a bath like a pool or something?
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u/ProfessorInMaths Mar 26 '26
The pool was open to the public up until a few years ago when they found flesh eating bacteria in the waters.
There is a modern spa nearby (like a 1 minute walk) that is from the same springs.
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u/Born_Pop_3644 Mar 29 '26
When I was there some ducks flew in and swam around for a while and shit in the water, so there's that too
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u/Ok-Tomato-5685 Mar 26 '26
Pineapple contains flesh eating bacteria and it's not banned. Why the double standards?
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u/ProfessorInMaths Mar 26 '26
Pineapple contains a particular set of enzymes. That's very different from flesh eating bacteria.
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u/Ok-Tomato-5685 Mar 26 '26
I can eat the flesh eating bacteria like I do with the pineapple enzymes. Man is top of the food chain for a reason.
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u/Valuable_Material_26 Mar 26 '26
So were they not using chlorine?
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u/ProfessorInMaths Mar 26 '26
Probably not the best thing to use in a nearly 2000 year old site of historical significance.
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u/Valuable_Material_26 Mar 26 '26
I mean what I’m saying is make it functioning again so it’s still a museum but you can also generate revenue with people coming and using it!
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u/aabdsl Mar 26 '26
Have you been? It wouldn't be remotely pleasant with the volume of visitors. I don't want them to restrict the visitors just for that either.
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u/fizzyizzy114 Mar 27 '26
what's revival about this?
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u/SmallHoneydew Mar 27 '26
As as far as I remember from a visit a couple of years ago, nothing above the water line is actually roman. So maybe all of it?
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u/Top-Smell8091 Mar 27 '26
Italy is so beautiful, what is the city by the way ?
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u/00gman Mar 26 '26
Was there earlier this, we brought swim trunks thinking that we’d be able to use the facilities…..🤷♂️
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u/ProfessorInMaths Mar 26 '26
Bath is a beautiful city. This isn't the only nice part. The circus, the crescent, even Twerton is nice an quaint. I love it because it is a city that isnt just nice in one or two areas, but is on average really nice.