Baths of Diocletian

The largest and greatest of baths, the Bath of Diocletian, was dedicated in 306 AD and remained in use until 537 AD when the aqueducts that enabled them were cut my Roman goths. The bath's interior was covered in marble and colors with painted statues and stucco, while the outside was stucco which was carved so intricitley it appeared to look like marble. These baths were one part of a monastery and today are still used in part as a church. The Baths of Diocletian were able to house 3,000 bathers and were built by successive emperors. The sight of such an astonishing and massive bath gives the eye an illusion of being able to imagine it when in use.