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| Visiting the Roman baths in Għajn Tuffieħa |
The Grandma is going to leave Malta in two days. Although she has searched Corto Maltese around the country, she hasn't had succeess. She's not sad because she is not going to give up and this searching is a great motive to keep alive and illusionated.
Today, The Grandma and her friends are visiting the Roman baths in Għajn Tuffieħa in Mellieha. They want to close a circle. They met in Sant Boi de Llobregat, a city near Barcelona, very famous for its Roman thermae and they are going to finish their cultural Maltese travel visiting the Roman baths in Għajn Tuffieħa. It's difficult to sum up ll this travel in only one minute but we're trying to do it.
More information: Heritage Malta
The Għajn Tuffieħa Roman Baths were discovered in 1929 during government works to cap a fresh water spring in the area. This spring, or a similar one, might explain why the baths, which needed a constant flow of large amounts of water, were built in Għajn Tuffieħa.
More information: Wikiwand
The site, one of the many excavated under the supervision of Sir Themistocles Zammit, comprises a number of rooms. These represent the full repertoire seen in other Roman baths, including the Tepidarium, Frigidarium and Caldarium.
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| Joseph de Ca'th Lon contemplates the Roman baths |
There is also a latrine and a corridor connecting small rooms which are usually interpreted to be changing or bedrooms. It is possible that these rooms acted as a dormitory for people visiting the baths as they cannot be connected with any residential remains of the same period.
All the rooms are decorated with intricate mosaics of coloured marbles and stones arranged in geometric designs. The corridors and latrine are, on the other hand, paved with ceramic lozenge-shaped tiles of a length of just fewer than ten centimeters.
More information: Din l-Art Ħelwa
In 1961, the site’s mosaics underwent restoration sponsored by UNESCO and rooms were built to shelter and protect the remains. The site has also benefited in recent years from the UNESCO funded Malta Mosaics Project, which mapped mosaics and pavements at Għajn Tuffieha and the Domvs Romana. The analysis of this mapping has resulted in a detailed conservation plan which will be implemented in the coming years.
The European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development has granted funds for the study and conservation of the site as part of the 2007 Rural Development Programme for Malta. These funds will help to create visitor facilities and open the site to the public.
More information: Independent
The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were.
And after all of those things converged together,
they just went right down the tubes very quickly.
Ben Carson
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