Petronell Travel Guide

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Hypocaustus system - Underfloor heating
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underfloor heating

From a fireplace outside the house, hot air and smoke are drawn between the pillars under the floor an up through the cavities in the wall bricks into the open air, heating the floor and the walls.

Written Apr 25, 2004

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Open Air Museum Petronell - the baths
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baths - carnuntum

Baths in the legionary town included an apodyterium or changing room, cold room (frigidarium), warm room (tepidarium), hot room (caldarium), and sweatbaths (sudatorium), the latter two with subground heating or hypocausts. Nearby was a small swimming pool (piscina)

Written Apr 25, 2004

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