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Arab Baths
The name is deceptive. Although modelled on Moorish and Roman baths, the 'Banya Àrabs' are a 12th-century Romanesque affair. This is the lone public bathhouse unearthed in medieval Christian Spain, where washing almost came to be regarded as ungodly in reaction to the Muslim obsession with water and cleanliness.
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Catedral
It's worth climbing the 86 steps to this cathedral, rebuilt and altered over centuries. Inside is Europe's widest Gothic nave (23m) and in the adjacent museum, the masterly Romanesque Tapestry of the Creation. A museum ticket includes admission to a beautiful 12th-century cloister.
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Museum of the History of the Jews
El Call's cobbled streets don't reveal many secrets of its medieval Jewish residents, who suffered expulsion in 1492. The museum (Museu d'Història dels Jueus) is a window on the private and scholarly life of that renowned ghetto. See archaeological objects such as the haunting local Hebrew tombstones plus contemporary exhibits.
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