Besalú’s thriving Jewish community fled the town in 1436 after relentless Christian persecution. It left behind a 12th-century riverside ³¾¾±±ç±¹Ã© (ritual bath), a rare survivor of its kind in Spain, which was rediscovered in 1964. It sits inside a vaulted stone chamber, around which remnants of the 13th-century synagogue were unearthed in 2005. Access to the ³¾¾±±ç±¹Ã© is by guided tour with the tourist office or Ars Didà ctica, but you can see the square and ruin exterior independently.