Terme di Agrippa - Rome
The Baths of Agrippa were a thermal complex of ancient Rome , inaugurated in the Campo Marzio in 12 BC by Marco Vipsanio Agrippa and fed by Virgin Water . It was the first public spa building in the city, and was located just north of the current Largo di Torre Argentina , between Corso Vittorio Emanuele, via di Santa Chiara and via dei Cestari.

They were built starting from 25 BC and in 19 BC the aqueduct that fed them came into operation. Restored after the fire of 80 , which seriously damaged them, they were again restored by Titus , Domitian and Adriano , when he also worked on the nearby Pantheon , also by Agrippa. Other restorations took place in the Severan period , under Maxentius and in 344 - 345 , by Constant I and Constantius II .

Sidonio Apollinare describes them as still functioning in the fifth century , but probably abandoned in the seventh century, they began to be dismantled for the recycling of building materials. In the vicinity there is a &quot;limestone&quot; for the reduction of the marble to the lime. The work of destruction lasted throughout the Middle Ages and beyond, also due to the consistent population of the Campo Marzio area.
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