Historic bathhouses on Calle Cara and Calle Cardenal González

Historic bathhouses on Calle Cara and Calle Cardenal González

Photo: Edmundo Sáez / Wikimedia Commons , CC BY-SA 4.0 , resized

The Baños de la Pescadería in Córdoba are preserved ruins awaiting study and restoration.

The Baños de la Pescadería are baths situated on Calle Cara in Córdoba. These baths were later reformed and the complex was declared a bien de interés cultural in the category of conjunto histórico in 1954.

The baths are not visitable and are pending study and restoration. They occupy houses number 39, 41, 43, and 45 on Calle Cardenal González and 16, 18, 20, and 22 on the cited Calle Cara.

On 13 de julio de 2021, the Junta de Andalucía announced the disposition to recover these baths with archaeological activity with a budget of 66,000 euros and subsequently a 3D survey and ACAD planimetry for about 12,000 euros. A small sculpture before the door marks the location of the baths.

In the houses of Calle Cara, two vaulted rooms with skylights and the floor from the 14th or 15th century are preserved. In the houses of Calle Cardenal González, three galleries of arches, one of which with niches, with Mudéjar reforms and caliphal capitals are preserved, as well as barrel vaults of brick on a wall of ashlar bond and lime mortar, characteristic of the emiral and caliphal period.

Sources: Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons

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