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The Roman city was nucleus of civilisation. Theatres, aqueducts, bridges,
roads, temples; these are the marks of this matrix of civilisation. And the
baths, of course; public hygiene facilities, but also for socialising and
get-togethers. What city, worthy of that name, did not have them? In 1987,
following work done on the Council Offices, the city’s Roman baths were
discovered. The complex that has been studied so far is 300m2, is on a
North/South axis and is built according to Vetruvian canons.
Similarly to what occurred all over the Empire, these baths had to have a
complex of rooms for hot, warm and cold baths. A large space, therefore, where
now stands the architectural structure of Évora’s Municipal Council buildings
(old palace of the counts of Sortelha), standing on the bath quarter.
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