These baths or hammams, adjacent to the Umayyad Alcazar, to which they certainly belonged, may have been the most important in the city. Ablutions and bodily cleansing were an essential part of Muslim life. They were part of prayer as well as being a social rite.
Built under the Caliphate of Al-Hakem II, they form a group of rooms with ashlar walls. They are enclosed by vaults (where the characteristic star-shaped skylights appear), supported by ultra-semicircular arches on marble capitals and columns.
During the 11th to 13th centuries, they were reused by the Almoravids and Almohads, as evidenced by the plasterwork carved with ataurique motifs and epigraphic bands from the period that are kept in the archaeological museum.
It has recently been converted into a museum, offering a surprising tour.
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