No Roman villa is complete without a bathhouse. All Roman bathhouses are divided in several compartments. A changing room, the tepid bath, the hot tub and a cold plunge pool together make up the Roman bath experience. In a separate room a slave oils and scrapes the skin of the bather. The furnace room is stiflingly hot. The bathhouse is warmed using an open fire, the warmth spreads through the hollow floor and walls. Large kettles are used to heat the water for the baths.
The picture above shows a reconstruction of an original hollow floor. The stacked supports the floor rests on can be seen. In between these supports the hot air circulated.

The Netherlands has yielded only a limited amount of bathhouses where villas have been excavated. There has been recent research into the bathhouse of the villa Holzkuil near Kerkrade, Limburg. More bathhouses are known from sites in England and Germany. The park will reconstruct the bathhouse of Holzkuil as authentically as possible.