 Rooftop Pool. Photograph by Matt Cardy  |
IT is both an embarrassing yet comic story. A visitor to Britain’s historic town of Bath, eager to bathe in the natural springs at the famous Roman Baths museum, disappears into the men’s bathroom and emerges with a towel around his waist – ready to experience the healing properties of the waters for himself.
Thankfully, before dropping his towel in front of a growing band of curious onlookers and submerging into the ancient, lime-colored waters, a security guard comes to his rescue, hurriedly explaining that no one has been able to bathe in the hot springs since a health scare decades earlier.
Happily however, this is now a distant memory. While more than 4.5 million people visit Bath annually to take in its mix of Roman treasures and stunning Georgian architecture, for the first time in almost three decades they can follow in the footsteps of the Romans and Georgians and bathe in the mineral rich hot springs now the new Thermae Bath Spa has opened
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