Plaça de Can Xammar, 8
Like the spas today, the Roman baths were intended for personal hygiene, gymnastic exercises and massages, but also as leisure and meeting places for the well-off.
Iluro has its baths just like every important Roman city. They were built at the end of the first century before Christ, at the time of Emperor Augustus. They were right where you are now. In fact, you can still see some remains that give us an idea of what they were like.
The hot baths of Mataró took up almost three street blocks and were luxurious. They had a large reception room paved with a large mosaic, from which there was access to the changing rooms and the pools, divided into three according to the water temperature: caldarium, for hot water; tepidarium, for warm; and frigidarium, for the cold. A corridor connected the hall with the toilets, a semi-circular room that also has a large mosaic floor.
Other elements also show that they were luxury baths. The archaeological excavations of 2002 brought forth several fragments of a life-size marble sculpture representing Venus, the goddess of beauty, accompanied by a dolphin that reminds us of its relationship with the sea and waters.
From the same square you can see some walls of this Roman complex and from within the Association of Surveyors, Technical Architects and Engineers, a sample of what the water pipes were like at this time.
