Photograph of Aire de Sevilla courtesy of Aire de Sevilla

After a long day spent checking out Seville’s Cathedral and Alcázar and wandering through the Barrio de Santa Cruz tangle, I treated my weary muscles to a soak at Aire de Sevilla, a stunning hamman, or Arab bathhouse.

I recommend taking the thermal circuit after check-in, with soaks in the tepidarium (warm bath), caldarium (hot bath) and frigidarium (cold bath; at 16 C / 60F I only saw one brave older woman spend more than a few seconds in this bath.) We only made it to our ankles before squealing and bolting out.

The hamman also has a jacuzzi bath, steam room, and café. For an extra fee, various spa treatments are available, including massages, facials, manicures, and pedicures.

The baths are especially popular with young Sevillano couples smooching openly and giving one another backrubs. For this envious single traveler, such sights counted as too much foreplay.

A 90-minute session costs €19, with a discounted rate of €15 offered from Monday through Thursday from 10 a.m. until noon and again from 2 p.m. until 4 p.m. Reservations are recommended. Some English is spoken. Aire de Sevilla is located at Calle Aire, 15. Tel: +34 95 501 00 24.

Wandering Cheapo Diane Schutz is a television producer, writer, and budget traveler based in New York City. She has worked recently as a producer for the Travel Channel’s “Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations.”

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