Baños del Alcázar Califal

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"By accident, in 1903, the remains of some Arab baths were found in Campo de los Santos Mártires, which were buried months later. Between 1961 and 1964, a group of historians from Cordoba brought the construction to light, proving its great size. These baths or hammam, adjacent to the disappeared Umayyad Alcázar, to which they most certainly belonged, were possibly the most important in the city. Ablutions and bodily cleansing were an essential part of Muslim life. They were mandatory in prayer, as well as constituting a social rite. Built under the caliphate of Alhakem II, they form a set of rooms with ashlar walls. They are closed with 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."
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