The Baths of Caracalla

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The Baths of Caracalla

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Few buildings give a greater sense of the monumental grandeur of ancient Rome than the Baths of Caracalla.  

‘Standing there like relics of a race of giants long since vanquished from the world’, so wrote the French writer Emile Zola. Henry James noted: ‘Even more than the Colosseum, I think they give you a notion of Roman scale….’ 
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