Roman Thermal Baths (Germisara) - details and images

Spa resort complex located in Geoagiu Bai - ancient Germisara, the most important spa resort, better organized and, therefore, more frequented by the Romans on the present territory of Hunedoara - dated centuries II - III is unique in the world by the way watershed planning, organizing and mobile inventory discovered here, eight gold votive plates.

About the importance of bathrooms and intense then their views tell us many archaeological traces preserved over the centuries: old buildings, bathroom basins, inscriptions and statues dedicated to gods of healing, some even found on the current site spa facilities. Among the monuments carved in stone, found here and kept inside the bathroom or in museums in Orastie or Deva remember statuary group representing Aesculap and Hygeia healing divinities whose images (accompanied by a snake curled in our case on a stick), until today symbolizes pharmaceutical and medical science .

Another memorial, this time an inscription, is dedicated to P. Furius Saturninus, governor of Dacia in the year 161 AD. The chief executive, a special guest baths, coming to benefical hot springs of Germisara to search health record that fact by the Monument Hygeia and Aesculap protective gods as thanks for his healing.

The quality and the large number of visitors to the baths Germisara time could be illustrated with examples, offered by numerous archaeological documents.


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