Spent a lot of time walking through the city and discussing the origin of the cities development predating the roman empire. Got the chance to visit the Musee De Cluny which is a museum filled with medieval art work, that was built over the top a preexisting roman structure. We got to see the frigidarium of a roman bath, it really speaks to Rome’s sprawl and influence over the rest of the ancient world. The Frigidarium is the room with the cold pools are located it is also normally the last room of the baths visited in order to cool down after visiting the tepidarium. It was rather sad to see that only the frigidarium survived and so little of the mosaics that normally decorate a roman bath. Roman engineering is extremely impressive. In their ability to produce materials and building techniques which won’t resurface till the renaissance and even later. I wanted to explain how roman baths work since they were such a centerpiece of roman culture, and often an all day event. Roman would go through the different parts of the bath taking there own sweet time. The baths included four parts, and five steps. There is the tepidarium, the caladarium the frigidarium and the plaestra. In translation, you have the warm room, the hot room, and the cold room as well as the exercise yard and swimming pool, you also get an oil message. A roman bath is equivalent to a modern-day gym and spa. Though I don’t know of many spas that have heated floors or the engineering that roman baths do. 