Baños del Almirante
Medieval steam bathhouse with vaulted chambers lit by eight-pointed star skylights, in continuous use for six centuries.
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This guide to Banos del Almirante in Valencia asks why this bathhouse alone survived when Valencia's nine other medieval baths did not. It goes back to 1313, when the knight and jurist Pere de Vila-rasa won permission from King James the Second to build a bath and oven on his land, following a hammam blueprint centuries after the Islamic conquest had ended. You'll hear how the hidden chamber beneath the hot room and the channels built into its walls kept the building running for six hundred years. Stand under the star-shaped skylights to see the last working piece of that system left in the city.
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