(Under today's codes, that expanse would allow 2,200 bathers).
Among Rome's most beautiful and luxurious baths, designed to accommodate about 1,600 bathers, the Baths of Caracalla continued in use until the 6th century.
After the show closed, he said, there were still a few paintings on the walls waiting to be taken away: Matisse's "Blue Nude," "Le Luxe I" (1907), "Bathers With a Turtle," "Bathers by a River" (1909-16).
"At least as early as the 1880s, bathers congregated in the cove to enjoy its warm waters — the result of heated industrial discharge from nearby facilities," the report said.
In the summer months bathers pack the beaches at resorts such as Mar del Plata, though the waters of the Río de la Plata itself, once available to all comers, are polluted and have been declared unsafe for swimming.
The best preserved are the Baths of Caracalla (begun c. ad 217), which covered an area about 1,000 square feet (90 square metres), and those of Diocletian (c. ad 298 306), with accommodation for 3,200 bathers.
The baths, on a sprawling site slightly off the beaten track in a city crowded by monumental attractions, hold their own against the nearby Circus Maximus, its shattered walls standing 37 metres high, recalling its second century heyday when it pulled in 5,000 bathers a day.
MANLY PAVILION A graciously restored 1930s bathers' pavilion is now the setting for rising star Jonathan Barthelmess' skillful Mediterranean cooking a bright and briny dish of cuttlefish with lemon, fennel, and translucent slivers of eggplant is a standout.
11 Hakoneyama, Japan 1952 1 bather ? 10 Rotorua, New Zealand 1954 1 digging hole 1 bather 1 in septic tank ?
