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Rhine baths

From the frigidarium to the tepidarium to the caldarium In use for two hundred years and repeatedly renovated the 'Rhine baths' were a symbol of the late expansion of the town towards the Rhine.

- Castrum Rauracense (Kaiseraugst fort) - Women's baths - Central baths - Bath complex with subterranean well house - Roman bathing - Roman baths - Decentralised exhibitions
During the excavation in 1974:		In Roman times:
The Rhine baths are accessible at any time and, together with a small exhibition, provide an insight into Roman bathing culture. The Rhine baths were the last public baths to be installed in Augusta Raurica (the central baths and the women's baths in the upper town had already been built in the 1st century AD.) They were in use from the 3rd century AD onwards by the inhabitants of the trade and commercial quarters of the lower town. In the 4th century AD, the complex was redeveloped and incorporated into the Late Roman castrum. Accessible today in a relatively good state of preservation is the earlier complex, of which one can see parts of the cold plunge baths with a well-preserved swimming pool and behind it two stepped lukewarm baths, as well as a hot bath on the Rhine front. The exhibition 'Bathing like the Romans', housed in the same protective building, is also worth a visit.
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