Marinid dynasty
The baths were built around the 14th century, after Gibraltar's occupation by Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Othman. One source dates the baths to 1355 during the rule of the Marinid dynasty. Records state that they were private baths, part of the palace of the Governor of Gibraltar. The site is considered to be one of the best-preserved Moorish bath houses in Europe. In 1906, James Edward Budgett-Meakin, an authority on Moorish antiquities, wrote of these baths: