Everything about Caldarium totally explained
A
Caldarium (also called a
Calidarium,
Cella Caldaria or
Cella Coctilium) was a room with a hot plunge bath, used in a
Roman bath complex.
This was a very hot and steamy room heated by a
hypocaust, an
underfloor heating system. This was the hottest room in the regular sequence of bathing rooms; after the caldarium, bathers would progress back through the
tepidarium to the
frigidarium.
In the caldarium there would be a bath (alveus, piscina calida or solium) of hot water sunk into the floor and there was sometimes even a laconicum - a hot, dry area for inducing sweating.
The bath's patrons would use
olive oil to cleanse themselves by applying it to their bodies and using a
strigil to remove the excess.
In modern
gyms and
spas a caldarium is a room with a hot floor.
Further Information
Get more info on 'Caldarium'.
|
External Link Exchanges
Do you know how hard it is to get a link from a large encyclopaedia? Well we're different and will prove it. To get a link from us just add the following HTML to your site on a relevant page:
<a href="http://caldarium.totallyexplained.com">Caldarium Totally Explained</a>
Then simply click through this link from your web page. Our crawlers will verify your link, extract the title of your web page and instantly add a link back to it. If you like you can remove the words Totally Explained and embed the link in article text.
As long as your link remains in place, we'll keep our link to you right here. Please play fair - our crawlers are watching. Your site must be closely related to this one's topic. Any kind of spamming, dubious practises or removing the link will result in your link from us being dropped and, potentially, your whole site being banned. |
