Baño de Comares(The Bath of Comares). 알람브라 궁전(Alhambra). 그라나다(Granada)

Baño de Comares(The Bath of Comares).

알람브라 궁전(Alhambra). 그라나다(Granada). 스페인(Spain)

 

 

The baths are one of the essential elements of the Islamic urban structure. The homes of those who could afford it were equipped with one, as were all the palaces in the Alhambra.

 

Access to the Bath of Comares (Baño de Comares) was through the door nearest to the noble rooms of the structure, a frequent constructive pattern in this type of buildings. Originally behind the L-shaped door were a small vestibule and a toilet, opposite which were the rooms of the servants in charge of the baths, serving as both an office and a dwelling.

 

The Christian conquerors had a different view of the baths and their contrasting domestic structure led to the modification of the access point: a gate in the wall was added to the structure, decorated with plasterwork from elsewhere.

 

The new gate led directly to the first bayt al-maslaj or Apodyterium, thus avoiding the original turn and corridor. This first room of the bath, consisting of a hall with a double-arched entrance, was the antechamber of the bath itself, which served as a room for dressing and massages.

 

Next to it, though appropriately separated, was a toilet that aerated towards the domes of the low structure of the bath, which consisted of two floors, the second floor standing at the level of the Court of the Myrtles. In front of the dressing room was a staircase that led to the Room of the Beds, the second apodyterium of the Bath.

 

 

 

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