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Cordoba Reopens Arabic Bath Houses

February 22, 2012

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Public baths in Cordoba.

Cordoba once had 300 public baths, and they were at the center of community life. People came herd to bathe, to gossip and to arrange marriages. But once the Catholic Spaniards took control of the city from the Moorish rulers in the late 15th century, the bathhouses were closed and left to crumble.

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