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The spa of Baños de Ledesma

Vega de Tirados, Tierra de Ledesma, Salamanca

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The spa of Baños de Ledesma

Activity · Vega de Tirados, Tierra de Ledesma, Salamanca

In the deserted settlement of Baños de Ledesma, within the municipality of Vega de Tirados, mineral-medicinal waters flow that were already exploited in Roman times, when there were baths beside the road linking Salamanca with Ledesma, attested by coins from the time of Marcus Aurelius and Commodus found at the site. After the Arab domination, Ramiro II of León ordered the place to be resettled in the year 939, and in 1164 Ferdinand II granted it to the church of Salamanca; during the Middle Ages it had an archpriesthood, and its waters, of recognised curative power, were even recommended by the physician of the Catholic Monarchs. In 1931 the spa was declared a Historic-Artistic Monument, and the present facilities, dating from 1975, were renovated in 1989. Today the deserted settlement has barely two registered inhabitants.

Photo: Frayle from Salamanca, España (Public domain)

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