New Notes about Localization ofthe Jewish Quarter ofBaza and its Arab Baths

Abstract

Since Gómez Moreno historians have identified the Arab Baths of Baza (11^th century) as Jewish Baths. This mistake led them to consider that the surrounding area was the Jewish Quarter. The Reality is very different. There were at least two Baths in Baza: the oldest in Marzuela arrabal (conserved at present in the Santiago Quarter) and the other, built ca. 1520 for the Moorish community, on the other side ofthe city. This Bath, situated in calle de la Judería (today calle del Cáliz, in the San Juan Quarter), has been destroyed. The little Jewish community ofBaza never use this Bath because ofthe Expulsion of the Spanish Jews thirty years befare.