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If you appreciate art or even just raw human talent... come for the medieval bronze gates, stay for the Renaissance altarpiece...masterpieces both.
Roman Baths
2024 Feb 11
The baths of via Terracina are extraordinary since the complex appears to have been located specifically for travelers rather than located in a community for residents. It was a major complex with the typical room arrangements... changing room, hot room and cold room.
The complex included a semi-circular latrine that was flushed with the water from the nearby Aqua Augusta aqueduct.
Late 4th-century BC fortification walls that surrounded the ancient town of Chaleion / Chalaion that lies under the modern Galaxidi.
"Clear traces of the circuit’s course have been traced on all the sides and located in several parts of the modern city. Following the contours of the hillock and enclosing an area measuring roughly 70,000 m2, the wall that was extended to approximately 1000 m was studded with rectangular towers on all sides. The best-preserved parts are those on the NW and NE sides, where the curtain and its towers are visible to a height of approximately 60 and 70 m respectively."
- Nikolaos Petrochilos
So this is just the plaque for California Historical Landmark 271 which commemorate s the Old National Trails Highway, aka Route 66, as a state historic al landmark.
Art-student-esque sculpture with pretensions on reimagined classical columns. Crud tbh, mych like my photo of it.. Nice it commemorates the 1996 Olympics though.