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Baths of Roxelana

Newest Review: ... around the outside of the room, the wooden framework of which have been retained in the Baths of Roxelana. From here, you pass into the sogukluk, or intermediate room. This is a reasonably warm room in working hamami, separating the outside-temperature camekan from the next room – the hot room, or hararet. The hot room is the main room of the Turkish bath. In a working bath, the hot room is extremely hot, and filled with steam. Visitors to the bath can sit and sweat for as long as they wish in the hararet, before receiving the pummelling full-body massage on the central marble plinth (gobek tashi). The hexagonal gobek tashi in th... more

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Baths of Roxelana: Roxy's Rugs (1045 words)
by - written on 18/07/01 (Very useful, 195 readings)
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One thing that many visitors to Turkey want to do is have a Turkish bath, and Istanbul has quite a few baths, called hamami, to offer. However, if you're not interested in actually having a Turkish bath, perhaps because you don't want to inflict your body on strangers or because you don’t have any interest in being pummelled by a member of the same sex, you might still be interested in seeing the inside of a hamam. If this is the case, then the Baths of Roxelana provide an ideal tourist attraction. The building no longer serves as a hamam, and is now a large government-owned carpet showroom, thereby giving tourists the opportunity of seeing the ... Read the complete review