1996
Thermal baths is where we go to bathe, meet friends and gossip a bit (right): everyone must carry their own soap and towel from home, for hygiene reasons (so said our Dr. Hyppocrates, famous expert in saunas and Turkish baths). 
A modern boiler from Bono Energia provides steam for the whole installation - even too much, considering that someone must look for fresh air from openings cut in the roof - burning what they call today "poor combustibles" ...and we used to call wood in the old times. But look ...look at these fumes, what is Bono Sistemi doing? It's from Ancient Egypt's time that we tell them to do something about fumes, but they never learn, you see? God knows where this pollution will bring us! 
Taverns and shop-keepers enjoy the flow of tourists and local strollers: hi-tech goods are now produced locally and available for all purses: modern refrigerators, furniture seats and alloy wheels for our fast carts. A specialized shop sells moulded souvenirs - cheap copies of our Phidia's and Prassitele's masterworks - that come from East, from far countries where manpower is cheaper than here: if we don't find an agreement with our newly formed worker's unions and do not reduce our rising manufacturing costs, these eastern countries will invade us with their cheap goods, one of these days, I tell you!