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Baths of Caracalla

Terme di Caracalla

The Baths of Caracalla are the ruins of an imperial Roman bath complex of the early third century AD in Rome, on Viale delle Terme di Caracalla.

Why go

The Baths of Caracalla were inaugurated by the emperor Caracalla in 216 AD and stopped working in 537, when the Goths cut the aqueducts during the siege of Rome, according to the Soprintendenza Speciale di Roma, which runs the site. Its page describes a large rectangular enclosure around a central bath block, with underground service galleries that held furnaces, boilers and a mithraeum. The Soprintendenza says admission tickets are issued in the visitor's name and sold only on the Ministry of Culture's Musei Italiani portal and app or at the tills and ticket machines on site, and that it offers no extra services such as guided tours or skip-the-line entry. Rome's tourism site lists guided tours among the site's services and says the mithraeum can be seen only during special events or visits; the two sources do not agree on guided tours.

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Rome

Rome is the capital of Italy, in the Lazio region. Rome's tourism office says its historic centre within the Aurelian Walls is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and that the city hosts a foreign state, the enclave of Vatican City. The comune also takes in Ostia Antica, the excavated ancient port city near the mouth of the Tiber, while Tivoli, with Villa d'Este and Hadrian's Villa, is a separate comune.

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