Jewish baths or Miqvé
Banys Nous street was one of very particular use for the Jewish Community. The street was the limit of the Jewish Quarter and of the Roman walled city with watching towers. As a consequence it was not one of the main streets of the neighborhood, nor one with a great business activity.
However, with time, the Jewish community and the government of the time realized a lot of water would arrive to that area and they decided to make a profit out of it and to build public bath in the medieval city.
Nowadays, the building we find at the crossing with Call street was built after the medieval period, and preserves a Baroque painting, but we believe the underground part preserves the structure of what was the area of public baths of the city, with a room for the Miqvé, the Jewish bath ritual.
