The Baths of Caracalla is a site with all the beauty, history and scale of the city’s most famous attractions but a tiny fraction of the crowds.
Here’s a Roman archaeological site with all the beauty, history and sheer gargantuan scale of Rome’s most famous attractions, yet with a tiny fraction of the crowds. The Baths of Caracalla is heaving with hidden details you could easily spend hours exploring.iStock
The Baths of Caracalla is a massive, luxurious public bathhouse completed in AD 217 by Emperor Caracalla, who had some making up to do with the Roman public after murdering his brother, the popular Geta, along with 20,000 of his supporters. A walking route in the modern-day ruins begins with a tour of the gardens before skirting the “caldarium”, or hot pools: a circular room, once with marble floors, that was topped with a 40-metre-high dome .
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