Roman thermal baths

Roman thermal baths Riva del Garda

just outside the medieval fortified town of Riva

Roman thermal baths Riva are the remains of a thermal complex datable around the second half of the 1st century AD. and used until the first half of the 3rd century AD; a rectangular building from which there was access to secondary rooms; the site was found during excavations for adjacent basement parking. The sequence of the rooms was: Apoditheryum the dressing room; the toilets; Frigidarium, cold room; Tepidarium, lukewarm room; Calidarium, hot room; Laconicum, sauna. In the last three rooms the heating was by means of hot air circulation both under the floor and on the walls and in the laconicum, it was to be the marble bathtub then found in a church of Riva and now exposed to the MAG museum. On the outskirts of the spa there were other service areas such as a porch courtyard north and a garden where to do gymnastics to the east. The polychrome mosaic flooring and the colored marble slabs were removed from the site, while the materials used for the construction, decoration and some artefacts found (ceramic objects and bottles) were characterized by the high status of the bathers. In the second half of the 3rd century, barbarian invasions created a climate of instability and consequently the gradual abandonment of the implant; In the 6th century a flood covered the complex but during the excavations there were found burials dating back to the second half of the VI and the VII century.