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Girona Sights

Banys Àrabs

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  • Address
    • Carrer de Ferran Catòlic
  • Website
  • Price
    • adult/child €2/1
  • Hours
    • 10am-7pm Mon-Sat Apr-Sep, shorter hr rest of yr, 10am-2pm Sun & holidays

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Lonely Planet review for 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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