This Thursday, 22 June, the Government approved the classification of the Islamic Baths of Loulé (or hamman) as a National Monument.
The approval took place at the meeting of the Council of Ministers this Thursday, in Évora.
In a statement, the Government recalls that the «Islamic Baths of Loulé, discovered in 2006, constitute the first and, until now, only buildings of this type archaeologically documented in Portugal, as well as one of the most complete complexes of the kind identified in the Iberian Peninsula, being worthy of a national classification'.
Since November 2021, it was already known that the Islamic Baths were going to be a National Monument, but the approval just happened now.
At the time, Vítor Aleixo, mayor of Loulé, welcomed the classification.
«I fought for this since always. It is excellent news and a great asset even for the whole Algarve because there is no complex like our Islamic Baths in Portugal», he considered Sul Informação.
After extensive musealization works, the Islamic baths opened to the public in May of this year.
With a project by the architect Vítor Mestre, specialist in the rehabilitation of architectural heritage, the intervention carried out in the Islamic Baths of Loulé was to enhance the heritage, also in terms of tourism, in the heart of the historic center of the city, in Largo D. Pedro I.
The building tells the story not only of the Islamic baths, but also of the Manor House of Barretos, the noble building created in the XNUMXth century, whose memories also enrich this museum nucleus.
In addition to an interpretative area of the archaeological remains found on the site, over about ten years of excavations, which make up a first room, there is a space where it is possible to see the old baths and even visualize scenes from the past, in 3D interactive panels that simulate the daily life of this building, 800 years ago.
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