Even the urban poor had the right to visit the baths, paid for by the municipality. Contrary to today's notions, the people of that time were not very prudish and men and women shared the bathhouse together. In spite of this there were public baths in each town where people went not just to get clean, but to socialize. The Church was generally against cleansing the body, and so allowed the priests or monks to bathe only twice a year -at Christmas and on the feast day of some chosen patron. The cleanest people were villagers, who would often wash in the stables or the river. Even the poorest homes affording a basin with a water pitcher or a suspended water cistern with a faucet. The most common acts of hygiene included hand washing. This did not mean that wealthier residents washed more often, just that they were more readily able to put on clean clothes. In private houses a bathroom was a sign of luxury and high status. Swimming was attractive not just as a means of cleansing the body, but also for pleasure. In the inhospitable and badly-heated castles, there were sometimes bathrooms with bathtubs or even plunge pools. While crossing the drawbridge on your right going in the keep there is the stairway which lead to guard tower 1 (the chest where you can lockpick and steal the armor).move a bit pass that towards the center keep (near well) if you keep going forward there is the stairway on your left that leads to the lords chambers.
It was not uncommon for a latrine to be shared between several dwellings. There were water drainage systems and no lack of free- standing latrines or outhouses, or at castles 'privies. Toilets consisted of cesspits topped with a wooden superstructure with a seat or just a board.
Find your first bathhouse From the 13th century on, waste was dumped behind the house or buried in pits.
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