Roman Baths

Roman Baths

The Roman Baths consisted of the sacred spring, the roman temple and the roman bathhouse. The water that comes into these baths is similar to a natural hot spring (hot pot). The Romans would bath and socialize in the spa like environment. Today that water is so contaminated that if you touched it and then put your fingers in your mouth you would for sure get sick.

The Georgian Pump Room was built centuries later continuing the name of the most fashionable spa in the country. The pump room was a place where visitors gathered to taste the waters and to meet each other. Jane Austen so eloquently described this social scene in Northanger Abbey. When we were there we drank the waters of the Bath. I am not sure where they get the waters from, but there must still be a natural spring that is not contaminated like the Roman Baths just outside the Pump room.