Roman baths of Misterbianco
The Roman Baths of Misterbianco are part of the remains of a late Roman aqueduct built between the end of the 2nd century and the 8th century AD.
The baths were built with the aim of incorporating the water coming from the municipality of Santa Maria di Licodia and directed to Catania, in order to make it accessible to the citizens of the towns that surrounded the path of the stream.
From the few information available, it is certain that the structure was further adapted to make it usable as a home. The baths consist of a thermal building, probably belonging to a private villa, whose central body can be dated to the late imperial age or, between the end of the 2nd and the beginning of the 3rd century AD. In the fourth century the building was enlarged in the northern part and between the fifth and eighth centuries it was equipped with additional rooms for residential use. The interior of the rooms features decorations with polychrome marble, porphyry columns, drawer ceilings and floors decorated with mosaics.
