In ancient Roman cities it was very important to have public baths where people used to go and socialize, play ball games and wash themselves. The baths were introduces to the public in the earlier stages of the first century BC and spread quickly around Europe and the Roman empire.
Most Roman cities had at least one, if not many, such buildings. Roman bath-houses were also provided for private villas, town houses, and forts (where Roman soldiers used to camp of build fortresses). They were supplied with water from an adjacent river or stream, or more normally, by an aqueduct a long channel that carried water to cities from rivers and mountains. When the water got to the baths it would be heated up in a boiler with wood that is where the name Thermae comes from the word thermos means hot in Greek
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