Baños de la Reina

The Baños de la Reina, meaning the Queen's Baths, is a name shared by several historic Spanish bathing sites reflecting the deep cultural importance of bath complexes in both the Roman and medieval Andalusian traditions of the Iberian Peninsula. The name has been applied to ancient Roman fish-salting factories turned coastal leisure sites such as the facility in Calpe and to the Illeta dels Banyets in Campello, demonstrating how the cultural memory of royal or elite bathing became attached to varied ancient waterside monuments. These sites collectively illustrate the continuous importance of communal bathing from Roman antiquity through the Arab centuries to the modern era in the Spanish Mediterranean cultural landscape.