Carrera del Darro
Riverside lane of Moorish bathhouses, footbridges and old palaces below the Alhambra's walls.
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On Carrera del Darro in Granada, this guide steps behind an unmarked doorway into El Bañuelo, one of Spain's oldest surviving hammams, and asks what a weekly bath meant to the Muslims who built it. You'll hear how families moved through cool and steam chambers lit by star-shaped skylights, why men and women bathed on separate days, and how a king who feared old faith surviving under new names eventually moved against the custom. Look up at the pierced ceiling as you listen, and picture the shafts of light bathers once walked through.
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