Caldarium
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In an ancient Roman bath, a caldarium was a hot room with a plunge bath. It was heated using an underfloor system of tunnels of hot air, tended by slaves. It was the second room one would enter when entering the three main rooms that made up the baths, the first one being the tepidarium (warm room) and the third being the frigidarium (cold room).
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