Twelve different columns
The capitals vary because the columns were reused from earlier Roman and Byzantine buildings.
Martin Furtschegger — CC BY 3.0 · Adrian Tync — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Pep marfran — CC BY-SA 3.0 · rene boulay — CC BY-SA 3.0
If the history of al-Andalus matters to you, yes despite the short visit, because so little of Islamic Mallorca survives and this is its clearest piece. If you expect a large bathhouse like those in Granada or Córdoba, you will find it far smaller.
About three centuries, from the conquest early in the tenth century until the island fell in 1229. It is a long period, but little of its architecture survived, since the city was largely rebuilt afterwards — the cathedral itself stands on the site of the great mosque.
Sign in to write your review of this place.
No reviews yet — be the first.
A small bath chamber in the old town of Palma, and the clearest thing to survive from the Islamic period in the city. Mallorca was under Muslim rule for roughly three centuries until 1229, but very little of that era's architecture remains, which is where this site gets its importance. What survives is a square hot room under a dome, carried on twelve columns each with a different capital. The variety is deliberate rather than random: these are columns reused from earlier Roman and Byzantine buildings, a normal practice in Andalusi construction. The dome is pierced with small openings that let light in and steam out, the same solution you see in the bathhouses of Córdoba, Granada and Morocco. The visit is very short, ten to twenty minutes, and the site is small, set in a garden. Know that before paying; the value is symbolic and historical more than visual, but it is nearly the only witness to Islamic Mallorca inside the city.
The capitals vary because the columns were reused from earlier Roman and Byzantine buildings.
Small holes admitting light and releasing steam, as in the baths of Córdoba, Granada and Morocco.
Very little of Islamic Mallorca survives, and this is its clearest share inside the city.
Carrer de Can Serra, old town, Palma de Mallorca