Thermal baths
The remains located to the north of the city correspond to a rectangular plan in two parts, which could be interpreted as the Palaestra or exercise area, and the bathhouse. If archaeologists are still trying to identify its exact function, they date them to the second half of the 1st century A.D. or the beginning of the 2nd century. The palaestra has the shape of a rectangular courtyard surrounded by porticos on 3 sides, with a total surface area of 37 by 29 m: all that remains of this courtyard is the stone paving of the floor.
The other part (the baths?), 69 by 54 m, would be designed in three successive rooms corresponding to the cold room (frigidarium), the warm room (tepidarium), and the hot room (calderium). There would also be a cloakroom (apodyterium), a heating room (hypocausts) and a reserve. But this identification remains uncertain. Most of the walls of the structure of the building still exist, are integrated into the surrounding wall of the city, and allow to give an idea of the whole building whose ceilings were vaulted with arches.
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