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of Naples    Baiae's medicinal springs[edit]  Excavations at the
ancient site of Baiae show that the city was host to an
important region for thermo-mineral bathing in antiquity. Baiae
had been built on the Cumaean peninsula, which was an active
volcanic area, known as the Phlegraean Fields, the "fields
devoured by fire". Baiae hosted numerous baths filled with warm
mineral water directed to pools from sulfur springs underground.
Roman engineers were even able to construct a complex system of
chambers that channeled heat beneath the land’s surface into
bathing facilities that acted as saunas. However, these baths
were used not only for relaxation purposes, but often also as
medicinal remedies for various illnesses. Roman physicians would
often attend their patients at these hot springs.[2]  One of the
bathing complexes on the hillside included the Temple of Echo
(erroneously, since the s