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Central Baths (IX,4,5-18)
The economic-social axis of Pompeii moves towards Via di Stabia: thus it is in this area that a new bath complex was designed, which replaced an entire block of the 9th region and which, begun after 62 AD, was never completed. Note that no separate sections are provided for men and women. An effective room heating system was installed, but at the time of the eruption the furnaces were still missing, and there still remained to organize the garden with pilastered portico, the palaestra, and the pool. On either side of the main entrance, in via di Nola, two small rooms were to act as ticket booth and a place to check valuables.