While historians cannot pin down exactly when people began bathing indoors, it is known that the Ottoman Empire fell heir to the Roman Bath tradition, and the first “Turkish bath” was built in ...

Sweating it out in communal spaces for relaxation ... saunas and Native American sweat lodges to Japan’s onsens and Turkish baths. But the most popular saunas now are those that emphasize ...

Sweating it out in communal spaces for relaxation ... saunas and Native American sweat lodges to Japan’s onsens and Turkish baths. But the most popular saunas now are those that emphasize ...

Sweating it out in communal spaces for relaxation ... saunas and Native American sweat lodges to Japan’s onsens and Turkish baths. But the most popular saunas now are those that emphasize ...

Public baths have a longstanding legacy and this Turkish city is the place to find out why. While Zeyrek Çinili Hammam is a singular stop because it has the hammam and museum, as well as a ...

It may be winter and there may be a biting chill in the air, but the dozen men and women who have packed this small sauna room in east London are happily sweating away in their swimwear. It’s more ...