Museo delle Terme di Diocleziano

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• This museum is one of the four seats of the Museo Nazionale Romano. The enormous spa complex was built around 300 CE and nowadays lies in front of the Termini railway station. It is still possible to see the ruins of the huge hall used for hot baths, while the one used for warm baths is now part of the Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli. The Museum houses a large collection of epigraphs, inscriptions and sarcophagi. Visit also the Olearie Papali, the rooms housing gigantic earthenware jars to preserve oil for the papal court. - Maria Frullini
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