ANCIENT CULTURES BATHS

Esthetic

The most primitive baths of the ancient cultures were only dependencies of the gymnasiums and they had cold water, but at the end of the 5th century BC. they began to become complex independent facilities, located throughout the metropolis. The vestiges of ruins of this type that have been exclusively found bathrooms of the male members of government are those of the city Mohenjo-Daro in India whose date is before 2000 BC, in Crete, an island of the Greek archipelago built around from 1700-1400 BC and in the royal city in Egypt Tell el-Amarna, built around 1350 a.C. There were small versions of these same facilities for women.

In Rome, Italy the Diocletian's Bath was conserved that at the moment became the Church of Santa Maria of the Angels, was the place where the water was brought of the distant sources by means of aqueducts. To heat the interior of all the rooms, a series of ducts with hot water were used, located under the floors that were covered with decorative mosaics. The architectural layout of the Diocletian's Therma is similar to that of the rest that are preserved throughout the Roman Empire. Around a central patio called a palestra, where you can practice exercise, you can find the apodyterium or wardrobe; the caldarium or alveus room or hot water pool, followed by the laconicum or steam bath, and the frigidarium or cold pool.

The healthy practice of "detox" or detoxification continues to be fashionable at present. To make a diet that removes excesses from the body, to cleanse us of impurities and thus restore our health. It is achieved through various techniques such as vegetable soup, with natural juices and semi-thick shakes, the manufacturing industry pads, tea and detox more intense with long stays where they are secluded in clinics or spas. So, in the city in the midst of a climate free of tuxedo that promise to restore lost health.

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