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Buried for centuries beneath a square in Cordoba, the Banos del Alcazar Califal are the excavated remains of a royal Islamic bathhouse, among the best preserved of their kind in Spain. They lie in the Campo Santo de los Martires, close to the great Mosque-Cathedral and the Alcazar of the Christian Monarchs. The baths were built in the 10th century, during the reign of Caliph al-Hakam II, when Cordoba was the capital of the Umayyad caliphate of al-Andalus and one of the largest cities in the wor...