page_title: Castra Albana
section_title: Baths of Caracalla
hierarchical_section_title: Castra Albana / Description / Archaeological remains / Baths of Caracalla
caption_attribution_description: Albano Laziale - Le antiche terme romane di Cellomaio.
context_page_description: The Castra Albana was a permanent legionary fortress of the Legio II Parthica, founded by the Emperor Septimius Severus on the modern site of Albano Laziale. Today, the ruins of the structures inside the castra, such as the so-called Baths of Caracalla and the Amphitheatre represent one of the largest collections of Roman archaeological remains in Latium, outside of Rome.
context_section_description: The Baths of Caracalla or of Cellomaio are even today the most conspicuous evidence of the castra’s period of greatest splendour. Built by the Emperor Caracalla for the use of the legion in the period after the construction of the castra but before the construction of the amphitheatre, they later contained an entire Medieval neighbourhood. The best conserved part of the baths is a rectangular hall, 37 x 12 metres which is home to the Church of San Pietro.
  Underneath the sacristry of the church and near Cellomaio Street, a black and white mosaic floor from the baths was found. Other notable remains were found in the garden of the Sisters of Jesus and Mary, which is probably planted over the hypocaust system which was used to heat the water.
  The building structure is made up of a core of peperino gravel cement, broken up by stretches of brickwork and faced with mattone bricks.
caption: View of the Baths of Caracalla.
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