The King's Bath was added sometime during the 12th century around the site of the original Sacred Spring.

After luxuriating in the baths, Romans would have reinvigorated themselves with a dip in the circular cold-water pool. More bathing pools and changing rooms are to the east and west, with excavated sections revealing the hypocaust system that heated the bathing rooms. Though now open-air, the bath would originally have been covered by a 45m-high barrel-vaulted roof. The heart of the complex is the Great Bath, a lead-lined pool filled with steaming, geothermally heated water from the so-called 'Sacred Spring' to a depth of 1.6m. Set alongside a temple dedicated to the healing goddess Sulis-Minerva, the baths now form one of the world's best-preserved ancient Roman spas, and are encircled by 18th- and 19th-century buildings. In typically ostentatious style, the Romans built a bathhouse complex above Bath's 115☏ (46☌) hot springs. The elaborate spa complex dates from around 70AD and was known then as Aquae Sulis. Best of all you can still sample the waters that drew the Romans here almost 2000 years ago. Today more than a million visitors a year come to see its historic finds, atmospheric pools and imaginative displays, making this one of Bath's top things to do.

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