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The ROMAN BATHS

Hot Bath Street. Quiet Street. Comfortable Place. Perfect View. The quaint street names in Bath are redolent of a place of ease and relaxation. The ancient Romans certainly thought so: they chose Bath as the site of an incredible spa complex, built around a sacred spring believed to have healing properties.

More than a million litres of spring water gushes out of the ground here every day at a warm 46°C, which must have seemed like a miracle to the Romans. They built their lavish spa in

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