The great column
About 15 metres tall.
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The largest Roman baths built on the African continent and one of the three largest in the whole Roman Empire. They rose on the seafront in the middle of the second century AD, took the name of Emperor Antoninus Pius, and stayed in use until the Vandals wrecked them after their invasion in 439. What survives is mostly the lower level, the service floor where the furnaces burned and the water channels ran, while the grand bathing halls stood above it. A single re-erected column, about 15 metres tall, gives a sense of the original building's scale. Around the baths spreads an archaeological park scattered with the remains of houses, tombs, early churches, columns and capitals, among palm trees and against the blue of the sea. The site borders the presidential palace of Carthage, so do not point your camera towards it, as guards will remind you. Shade is scarce: come in the morning, or late in the day in summer, and carry water.
About 15 metres tall.
Furnaces and water channels.
Between palms and sea.
Avenue des Thermes d'Antonin, Carthage, on the seafront
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