The Baths of Constantine were a spa complex in ancient Rome, the last of its kind, built on the Quirinal hill, by Constantine I around 315, but perhaps started under Maxentius. They were located in the area currently between piazza del Quirinale, via Ventiquattro Maggio, via della Consulta and via Nazionale, in correspondence with the embankment supported by the wall of villa Aldobrandini, then cut by via Nazionale.
Built with huge leveling and excavation works of the existing land, which involved the demolition of pre-existing public and private buildings, the spas were damaged in 367 by a fire, sacked in 410 by the Goths of Alaric and then restored in 443 by the praefectus urbi Petronio Perpenna Magno Quadraziano and probably still under Theodoric the Great. Abandoned at the beginning of the Middle Ages, the building material and structures were reused, like many other great works, for private and religious buildings.
The raised remains of the baths, represented by sixteenth-century prints and drawings (especially by Palladio) were definitively destroyed at the beginning of the seventeenth century with the construction of Palazzo Rospigliosi, a century later for the construction of what is now the Palazzo della Consulta, and finally, in 1877, with the opening of via Nazionale. The spas were rather small and exclusive, especially when compared with the nearby spas of Diocletian, grandiose but certainly "popular" by customers.
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