History - Banys de l'Almirall

Taken from the book "El Palacio y los Baños del Almirante" (The Admiral's Palace and Baths) by Concha Camps and Josep Torró.

• A Brief Historical Summary
   

• Public Baths in Valencia during the Late Middle Ages
  • The Proliferation of Public Baths during the reign of James II
  • The Steam Bath, or "Hamman", in Christian Society
  • Sociability and the Function of the Public Bath
     

• The "Bany del Carreró" (14th - 17th centuries)
  • Visions of an "Arab" Monument
  • Neither cAbd al-Malikm, nor En Suau
  • Arqueología del Bany del Carreró
  • The Baths, the Oven and the Families who owned them
     

• The bath in the 19 th and 20 th centuries.