Eretria: restoration and conservation design for the Roman baths
The design presented by the Ministry of Culture describes stabilisation, floor protection and limited reassembly. It aims to link the monument with neighbouring archaeological sites.
Greece’s Ministry of Culture presented a restoration and conservation design for the Roman baths of Eretria on 13 November 2026. Prepared by the Swiss School of Archaeology, the architectural study proposes protecting the remains, stabilising architectural elements and making the complex’s function easier for visitors to understand.
Proposed interventions include conserving and partially rebuilding walls, permanently protecting the brick floor in the entrance hall and partially reassembling the marble bench in the changing room. Protection is also planned for floors and hypocaust heating structures in the various rooms, making the sequence of cold and heated spaces clearer.
According to the ministry, the design aligns with the approved study to connect Eretria’s monuments, implemented by the Ephorate of Antiquities of Euboea under the Central Greece 2021–2027 Regional Programme. That reference concerns the wider scheme. The new release gives no separate budget, contractor, work-start date or completion date for the baths interventions.
The approximately 400-square-metre complex stands on the southern slope of the acropolis. The Swiss School documents its excavation in 2009–2014 and its use from the late second to the mid-third century AD. The planned connection with the House of Mosaics and other neighbouring sites aims to create linked visitor routes; no new opening date has been announced.
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