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Terme Diocleziano station

Name: Terme Diocleziano station
Address: 78 Viale Enrico de Nicola, Roma, Lazio, IT

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Vita

August 25, 2020

The Baths of Diocletian were public baths in ancient Rome. Named after emperor Diocletian and built from 298 AD to 306 AD, they were the largest of the imperial baths. The project was originally commissioned by Maximian upon his return to Rome in the autumn of 298 and was continued after his and Diocletian's abdication under Constantius, father of Constantine. The baths occupy the high-ground on the northeast summit of the Viminal, the smallest of the Seven hills of Rome, just inside the Agger of the Servian Wall (near what are today the Piazza della Repubblica and Termini rail station). In the early 5th century, the baths were restored.[6]:7 The baths remained in use until the siege of Rome in 537[7] when the Ostrogothic king Vitiges cut off the aqueducts. In the 1560s, Pope Pius IV ordered the building of a basilica in some of the remains, to commemorate Christian martyrs who according to legend died during the baths' construction, Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri. To this was attached a Carthusian charterhouse. Michelangelo was commissioned to design the church and he made use of both the frigidarium and tepidarium structures. He also planned the main cloister of the charterhouse. A small cloister next to the presbytery of the church was built, occupying part of the area where the baths' natatio had been located. In 1889, the Italian government set up the Museo Nazionale Romano in the baths and in the charterhouse.

Patrizia

September 3, 2017

Estese tra il Viminale e il Quirinale su una superficie di oltre 13 ettari, le Terme di Diocleziano sono il più grandioso complesso termale mai costruito nel mondo romano a due passi dalla Stazione Termini