Roman public baths of Alonis in Vila Joiosa

Roman public baths of Alonis in Vila Joiosa

Photo: Vilamuseu / Wikimedia Commons , CC BY-SA 4.0 , resized

Found in 2007, these Roman baths in Vila Joiosa date back to the first century AD.

The public baths of the Roman municipium of Alonis, located in present-day Vila Joiosa, date back to the first century AD. They were built between 85 AD and the first decade of the 2nd century, providing irrefutable evidence of the location of the Roman municipium. These public institutional buildings are believed to have been constructed as a result of the promotion of the city to the status of municipium by Emperor Vespasian in 73/74 AD.

The baths, which operated until the first half of the 4th century, cover an excavated area of 900 m². The site was discovered in 2007 and remains covered, making it impossible to visit currently.

Sources: Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons

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