Terme Bagni in Centuripe
Terme Bagni in Centuripe is one of the monumental public buildings of the imperial era located along the ancient Via Giulio Cesare.
. Among the other monumental buildings in Centuripe, called Augustali di Centuripe , there are also the Dogana, the Corradino Castle and the Augustali temple.
Terme Bagni are the remains of an old building imperial clay brick dating back to the second half of the 2nd century AD, originally extended to the area now occupied by a ravine. The original destination of the monument was probably thermal, given the high number of fragments of quadrangular section tubules, which testify to the ancient presence of heated rooms. The abundance of waters in the valley, indicated by the presence of drinking troughs and a spring, explains the location of this grandiose thermal building located outside the town.
The remains of the structure are found on the edge of an erosive valley, the whose bed flows below the nineteenth-century bridge that connects the two banks. Of the structure you can see a brick wall with five niches, the remains of a room with two basins, without traces of heating systems, it was supposed to be used as a frigidarium and parts of the aqueduct. While Una cistern, not far away, on the opposite side of the valley, at the highest level, with a capacity of over 150 cubic meters, served as a castellum aquae.
The complex is located in the Bagni district, at the north-western end of the town.