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Runs from 14th April 2011

Wellness -- Roman
In the underground of a bathing palace

Roman bathing culture is legendary! Being pampered in changing temperatures in ostentatious thermae, swimming, sweating, cooling down, debating, playing games, exercising, oiling oneself and being massaged, eating and drinking, resting, reading …… for hours on end: quintessential wellness.

In the subterranean Rhine baths in Kaiseraugst you will be transported back into the mysterious world of a Roman bathing palace in Augusta Raurica. Visitors amble through spaces that in Roman times were filled with hot air circulating between the pillars which supported the floors of the heated bath halls and basins, discover concealed rooms, enter heating chambers, walk along hot-air channels while listening to bathers enjoying themselves in the ""cathedrals of delight"": an interesting insight into a hidden world from 1700 years ago.
 

 
- History of the Imperium Romanum and the Roman town of Augusta Raurica: By way of the informative history trail laid out at intervals to the correct timescale between the animal park and the amphitheatre..
- Army: Because Augusta Raurica was a civilian town, there was no strong army presence. A 1st century AD legionary may have been on guard duty at the east gate. It was not until the late 3rd and in the 4th century that Augusta Raurica was once more a border town and needed protection on the side facing the River Rhine, to which the Kaiseraugst fort (Castrum Rauracense) and the fort wall bear witness.
- Stone monuments (inscriptions, reliefs, tombstones, architectural decoration elements etc.): The lapidarium beside the Roman house and the victoria pillar at the forum area.
Mosaics: In the curia basement.
- Bathing and personal hygiene: Under the protective roof in the Rhine baths.
- Water supply: Fountain and water drain with silt container in the forum area, great water conduit and section of a water conduit as well as the interesting cloaca
- Animal fighting and gladiatorial games: Multimedia show in the carcer of the amphitheatre.
- Early Christianity: Under the protective roof in the baptistery.
- Nutrition: 'Roman' bread bake house, old domestic animal species living in the animal park.
- Agriculture: Exhibition on 'Agricultural produce in the town' on the ground floor of the panorama information pavilion at the east gate/animal park and of course the animal park for domestic animal husbandry.
- Crafts: Exhibition on 'agricultural produce in the town' in the panorama information pavilion in the animal park and the experimental potter's kiln.
- Traffic and means of transport: The informative depictions on the large panorama and the display case exhibition on 'Trade and traffic' on the upper floor of the panorama information pavilion at the east gate/animal park.
- Tile making and long distance trade: Exhibition in the tile yard protection house above two excellently preserved tile kilns.

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