The Quarry

An open-air stone quarry with stepped sawn walls, a dark still basin on its floor, a line of deep square openings along one wall and morning sun on the upper far wall.
The old marès quarry, 30 × 22 m and 6 m deep, about 07:00.

Thirty-eight steps down, into cool rock.

An old marès quarry, cut down into the plateau. At the worst of the day, this is where the cool is.

Looking down a long straight stone stair through a narrow cut, a line of daylight on one wall.
The Baixada, from above.

The Baixada

38 stone treads, each fixed in one wall, with a thin bronze rail. A slit of daylight runs overhead.

Looking up the stair from its base, with open gaps between treads and one small figure near the top.
The same stair, from below.
The edge of a thin bronze handrail against a stone tread.
The rail, thin.

What happens there

The long shade
A small cool room of raw sawn rock with a plain stone bed, folded linen and one deep square opening onto sunlit quarry wall.
One room, one opening, one stone bed.
  • One basin. Thermal, still and dark, on the quarry floor.
  • Treatment rooms. Cut behind a line of deep openings.
  • The ledges. Palmetto and wild olive have seeded there on their own.
  • This is a fictional spa. Nothing here can be booked.

Plan a stay around it.

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