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Of castros and romans
The greatness of
Roman cities
The cities, besides having administrative or governmental buildings, became
big centres for commercial exchange. In the same way, they also had other
ludic elements, such as the thermal complexes present in most of them. Ourense,
Chaves, Lugo and Braga maintain evidences of sumptuous buildings for
thermal uses from this Roman period, taking advantage of the natural hot water
resources in the first cases, or building important hypocausts with this aim, such as
in Braga, with the great thermal complex of Alto da Cividade. These hypocaust
baths, on a smaller scale for its domestic use, are equally present in many villas
of the Roman era.
In the case of Lugo, the baths date back to the 1st century, when the city was
founded. The conservation of part of the original rooms allows to know exactly
how their structure was. The current site keeps the apodyterium or changing
room, and some rooms of the baths with their floor plans in opus signinum, as
well as remains of the former baths with their system of channels for water supply
and walls to control the rise of the Miño river.
Wall of Lugo (Lugo)
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