Arab Baths of Santa Maria

Built over a 10th-century lavatory related to the Great Mosque, they are a perfect example of this type of Hispano-Muslim construction, and are now part of a dwelling.

Integrated into a 19th-century courtyard house, we find part of an Arab baths, possibly built during the Mudéjar period over a 10th-century lavatory related to the Great Mosque of Córdoba.

The baths, which are small in size, are a perfect example of this type of construction, so abundant in Hispano-Muslim Cordoba. The current vestibule was once the changing room and led to the cold-water room. After various interventions, the cold-water room is now an open courtyard. With the vault and the pond removed, the original galleries with horseshoe arches and capitals of Caliphate style still remain. The hot room is rectangular with a barrel-vaulted ceiling and retains the openings that housed the hot- and cold-water basins. From this room there is access to an elliptical cistern located more than 10 m deep.

Nowadays, these Arab baths offer a typical dinner accompanied by a flamenco show.

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