Among the historic hammams in Fes, the Saffarin Hammam is unique in having separate rooms for men and women.[1] This allowed the hammam to be open to both sexes all day long, instead of holding separate opening hours for men and women.[2]:249[3] The three rooms, in order, are: the cold room (el-barrani in the local Arabic dialect), equivalent to the frigidarium, the middle room or warm room (el-wasti in Arabic), equivalent to the tepidarium, and the hot room (ad-dakhli in Arabic), equivalent to the caldarium.[8][2] All three rooms are covered in vaulted roofs.