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The Thermaes of Drobeta – Asociaţia Pro-Mehedinţi

These are the most complicated thermal installations of the Lower Dacia. Apparently they were used both by the soldiers stationed in the Drobeta Camp and by the civilian population. They were built in the same time as the Roman Camp by the soldiers of the Vth LEG. Macedonica, and at the beginning of the IIIth century they were rebuilt and “modernised” by a detachment of the Ist Cohorta Sagittariorum, led by Aurelius Mercurius, magister in Figlinis (master brick maker).

Unfortunately, today less than a half of the thermaes’ ruins are preserved. The one who researched the thermaes and began the first deeds to protect them was Alexandru Bărcăcilă who also made the most exact plan of the thermaes.

The running water was brought through pipes from the springs collected from the former Hollow of Springs (today the parking place of Ministry of Internal Affairs).

Beside the common endowments of a thermae, such as the fire room (praefurnium), steam room (laconicum), bath room (caldarium), cold water room (frigidarium) and others, in the north part there were the reading halls and a space for exercises and sports competitions, the palestra.