During our visit to the U.K. we went to one of my favourite historical cities, Bath in Somerset. Bath is the home of the famous hot spring of Aquae Sulis, “the waters of Sulis”. The Romans identified the Briton Celtic goddess Sulis with their goddess Minerva, but the Briton name stuck to the only hot spring in the British Isles. The Romans built a bath complex around the Sacred Spring which included a temple to Sulis-Minerva.
Under the modern bath tourist complex are the original Roman bath structures; bath houses, pools, hypercausts, plumbing, saunas – what did the Romans ever do for us? There are even sections of streets that existed at that time. It blows my mind a little that I can look at (but sadly not walk on) the same streets on which Romano-British citizens of the Roman Empire walked from about AD 60 to some time in the 5th century when the Romans left Britannia and the baths fell into disuse and disrepair.
It ain’t cheap though. In peak season (July & August) it’ll set you back £12.25 per adult.
