Visits to the public baths and the amphitheatre were important features of roman life. The public baths were like today's leisure centres~you want to get clean,meet up with friends,eat,exercise and play bored games. Every town had its own bath complex (like a large swimming pool). There were 170 baths in Rome during the reign of Augustus and by 300 A.D that number had increased to over 900 baths. People went to the public baths for entertainment, healing or just to get clean. The average bath house would have mirrors covering the walls, ceilings were buried in glass and the pools were lined with rich marble and complicated mosaics covered the floors. 

The Romans loved washing and bathing and rather it being done in private, the Romans built magnificnt public bath houses in towns across their empire. Rich villa owners would had their own baths in their homes.

You can see remains of a Roman bath in the city of Bath, in Somerset.

They would sit next to people in a line they would have a sponge one a stick to whipe the bottoms.

The reason you need to go to a bath is because you need to do your private stuff although people are stilll waching you because they are next to you waituing for the sponge.

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