Terme di Nerone (L. Corevi, Comune di Pisa)The Bagni di Nerone (Baths of Nero) are located in Largo del Parlascio (a term that meant for the Germans bear fighting place) near Porta a Lucca (Gate to Lucca), opened in 1546 and decorated with a double sandstone frame. The two small doors on the sides were opened for pedestrian traffic, as the city's tram system passed through the main gate. The Roman thermal baths of the first century. d. C., o Bagni di Nerone, were a very large complex, where the population went almost every day for hygienic reasons. The baths were fed by the Roman aqueduct of Caldaccoli, from the first century AD, today only partially visible near San Giuliano Terme, from where its route began. The involvement of Nero in the construction of the baths could not have happened, because the complex was dated to the last twenty years of the first century AD, therefore almost 20 years after the death of the emperor. Therefore, the origin of the name is to be found in the legend of San Torpé, a Pisan martyr, beheaded in 68 AD. The structure, square on the outside and octagonal inside, which still maintains the 4 perimeter brick walls, has been identified as the laconicum, for the hot air baths. We can still see the remains of the walls of the gymnasium, of the apodyterium (the changing room) and only two walls of the tiepidarium. Near the baths there is the Brunelleschi's Bastion: during the lordship of Cosimo the Elder de’ Medici some fortification projects were started, including the construction of the Parlascio Bastion,which takes its name from the oldest gate, dating back to 1157 and incorporated into the structure. It is a monumental gate, which still shows some decorations on the shelves supporting the large arch. In 1435, Filippo Brunelleschi built an internal counter door and rebuilt the fourteenth-century tower, which has now disappeared, but the entire bulwark was completed only in 1543 by architect Nanni Unghero, under the government of Cosimo I. The whole structure was later converted into ice-house and so it remained until the early twentieth century. During the war it served as a bomb shelter.
