Petronell Things to Do Tips by dvideira

Heidentor - Petronell

Heidentor - Petronell

Heidentor - Petronell

Heidentor - Petronell

This is how it looked like

Open Air Museum Petronell

Open Air Museum Petronell

Open Air Museum Petronell

Hypocaustus system - Underfloor heating

From a fireplace outside the house, hot air and smoke are drawn between the pillars under the floor an up through the cavities in the wall bricks into the open air, heating the floor and the walls.

Open Air Museum Petronell - the baths

Baths in the legionary town included an apodyterium or changing room, cold room (frigidarium), warm room (tepidarium), hot room (caldarium), and sweatbaths (sudatorium), the latter two with subground heating or hypocausts. Nearby was a small swimming pool (piscina)

Open Air Museum Petronell

View of the excavation site with the wooden observation tower.