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Located west of the "Ya'far House", the "Pool House" is the unique building built around the garden. Its date of building is unknown but it is supposed to be built in an early age based on artistic and archaeological opinions. It is supposed to be the Caliph al-Hakam II’s Residence, although this hypothesis has not been confirmed by comparison with the epigraphical remains or documentary sources.
The garden, in the occidental part, hugs a pool provided with water and connected to another pool containing water. The complex is surrounded by perimetral platforms and one central that delimitates the house. In the north there is a staircase, covered, that linked the house with the "Service Housing", while in the extreme south, the area of the garden was bounded by a wall of the non-residual. With this arrangement, the area of your garden reinforced insulation to the exterior and its private and intimate. The rooms in the "Pool House" is available in blocks of two and will open at the sides of the lower garden through their corresponding arches, decorated with atauriques, built at its center on columns and pilasters on the ends.
To this house is adjoined a bath. Firstly this bath was private, and then it was shared among the inhabitants of the palace. This transformation was run by Prime Minister Ya´far ibn Abd al-Rahman, in fact his name is on one inscription of the entrance arch of the warm bath, dated in the years 960 - 961.
This bath is very similar to that of the "Rich Lounge", both in its architecture and decoration in their organization, but also perceived differences in the morphology of the little warm rooms of the dressing room. Anyway they were quite similar to the oriental ones.
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