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Address: Via delle Terme di Traiano, 5b
Zone: Rione Monti (Colosseo-S.Giovanni-S.Maria Maggiore) (Roma centro)

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Description

For a long time considered to be part of the Domus Aurea due to their same orientation, the Sette Sale have been definitively recognised as belonging, since their construction, to the Baths of Trajan which, due to their size and grandeur, needed an adequate water supply.

The water reservoir consists of nine parallel rooms, all 5.30 m wide, but of varying dimensions, due to the curvilinear shape, for static reasons, of the eastern perimeter wall that leans against the natural embankment.
The rooms, which are therefore partly basement rooms, are between 29.30 and 39.75 metres long and are divided by concrete walls in which communication doors open, arranged along diagonal axes to prevent the formation of water currents.
The construction, entirely artificial, with the visible parts facing brickwork, is arranged on two levels, the lower of which rests directly on the ground, with the sole function of raising the actual water container so that the pressure would always be sufficient to supply the baths.
The reservoir had a capacity of over 8 million litres and was partly embedded in the ground and made more solid by quadrangular buttresses. The interior of the rooms is lined with cocciopesto up to the impost of the barrel vaults, which were cast on a double ribbing of bipedals and bessals, the marks of which are still visible in the concrete.

Excavations carried out between 1967 and 1975 brought to light the remains of a very rich domus built above the terrace of the Sette Sale and which must have originally occupied an even larger area.
Two phases can be distinguished in this domus: the original Trajan nucleus, to the west, with regular and parallel rooms built in mixed opus sectile, destined to serve the cistern; the fourth-century domus, very complex and articulated, with walls in opus sectile of tufa and brick and a rich architectural and floor decoration, in part still preserved, in opus sectile, as well as in mosaic.

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