Arab Bath sights in Girona
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Banys Àrabs
Although modelled on earlier Muslim and Roman bathhouses, the Banys Àrabs are a 12th-century Christian affair in Romanesque style. This is the only public bathhouse discovered from medieval Christian Spain, where, in reaction to the Muslim obsession with water and cleanliness (and a widely held view that water carried disease), washing almost came to be regarded as ungodly. The baths contain an apodyterium (changing room), followed by a frigidarium and tepidarium (with respectively cold and warm water) and a caldarium (a kind of sauna).
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