Stratigraphical analysis of the Islamic bath in Churriana de la Vega (Granada): knowledge’s synthesis as basis for the restoration project

Abstract

In the year 2006, the hamman or Islamic bath of Churriana de la Vega (Granada, Spain), a Listed Building, was the subject of a comprehensive study within an ongoing restoration project. An initial archival and historiographical research to analyse the typological and building parallels was followed by a stratigraphic analysis including the archaeological excavation of fourteen selected areas. All this information was registered in a 3D model of the building. The preliminary studies made possible to know the functional layout of the hammam and slowed the long history of a building that, partially destroyed at some point in the 16^th century, was inhabited until 1996. The stratigraphic analysis identified and described every surviving feature, playing yhus a major role in the knowledge of the building and being the basis for the restoration project.