Diocletian's Baths

The baths, pictured below. which we visited today were the largest ever built and were large enough to accommodate  3,000 bathers.  The highest roof towards the back of the photo is the original roof of the frigidarium whose interior space was converted by Michaelangelo into the church of St. Mary degli Angeli.  Michaelangelo also designed the large cloister.

At the center of the cloister large animal heads emerge right out of the middle of the hedges.

The museum on the site focuses on ancient epigraphy (writing) and statuary. One learns that forgeries were common and that a grocery shopping list for the army could be written on a copper tablet.  

 On the way home I was targeted by a pick pocket who attempted to un zip one of the pockets of my shoulder pack while I was trying to follow Lynne from a very crowded metro platform on to the train.  Luckily I didn't lose anything but it was a matter of luck and I have learned my lesson to be watchful at moments when it is easy to be distracted.  Also valuables will be carried in a safer place even if this means risking castration.