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About 2.5 miles away
Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel, and St. Peter's Basilica. Book the museums ahead.
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Baths of Caracalla
Towering brick ruins of a public bath complex for some 1,600 bathers, usually far quieter than the Forum.
- Open
- Usually Tuesday to Sunday; check the website
- Price
- Paid
- Time Needed
- 1 hour
- Address
- Viale delle Terme di Caracalla 52, 00153 RomeDirections
- Getting There
- Circo Massimo station (Metro line B), then a 10-minute walk.
Why Go
Built in the early 3rd century, the baths had hot and cold pools, a gym, gardens and libraries, and could take about 1,600 bathers at a time. Patches of the mosaic floors survive among the high walls.
On summer evenings, Rome's opera company performs on a stage set among the ruins.
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