Baños árabes (Huéneja)

The Arab baths of Huéneja are Moorish bath remains in the municipality of Huéneja in Granada Province, in the mountainous Guadix comarca of eastern Andalusia on the slopes of the Sierra Nevada. This rugged region of the former Kingdom of Granada, where dramatic gorges and high plateaux alternate with irrigated orchards, was dotted with small Moorish settlements whose modest hammams served local agricultural communities across the centuries of Nasrid rule. The bath remains represent the dispersal of Islamic bathing culture throughout even the most remote corners of al-Andalus, where the hammam was as essential to village life as the mosque and the communal oven in every settlement of the medieval Moorish countryside.