The Roman baths of Toledo or Roman thermae of Amador de los Ríos are ruins of Roman thermae located in the city of Toledo in Castile-La Mancha, Spain. The baths can be seen as part of the system of supplying clean water to the city (then known by the Latin name of Toletum). From the scale of the surviving infrastructure, they are assumed to have been a public facility.
As regards chronology, the remains correspond to a period between the end of the 1st century and mid-2nd century CE.
Water supply of Toletum
The location of the baths at Amador de los Ríos square is high above the River Tagus. In Roman times water was supplied from one of the river's tributaries and entered the city via an aqueduct about 80m above the Tajo. There was a storage system using large cisterns.
Access
There is a section below a former church, the Oratorio de San Felipe de Neri. Another section was discovered underneath a building in 1986.
Some of the remains can currently be viewed underneath a shop.
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Restos romanos del'siglo I
Descubiertos en 1628 cuando la Compania deJesus se di forma pa sponia-a-construir un edificio nuevo, este sotano de la red de suministro de Toledo que, en este caso, Ilevaban el agua a las Termas.
El complejo esta formado por un conjunto de tres galerias paralelas abovedadas, siendo la central la que se puede ver aqui.
Tambien se ha podido comprobar como esta galeria central tiene su continuacion en la galeria bajo el hipocausto de las termas de la Plaza de Amador de los Rios, por lo que podemos indicar que nos encontramos ante los restos de la red de suministro hidrico a un complejo termal de gran entidad.
Roman remains, I century
Discovered by the Society of Jesus in 1628 during the construction of a new building. This basement is part of the Toledo supply network, in this case, carried water to the thermal baths.
The complete structure consisting of three parallel arched galleries, being the middle one the one you can see here.
It has been confirmed that this central gallery continues into the gallery below the hypocaust of the thermal baths at Amador de los Rios Square, thus establishing the presence of a water supply to a thermal complex of large size.