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Baths of Diocletian

the most extensive of the Roman thermæ; in the and covering most of the ground between the Porto Collina . Over 3,000 persons could bathe in it at the same time.

It contained a library, picture gallery, odeum, etc. Michael Angelo transformed the great hall of the Tepidarium into a of S. Marie degli Angeli. One of the laconica (hot rooms) forms the vestibule of the church. med

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