الثلاثاء، 3 يناير 2012

Spa Istanbul

The traditional Turkish bath is one of the most requested tourist in Turkey.







Steam baths are very popular among

  visitors to Istanbul in the hot summer months. But the number of Turks who go to the spa town is falling continuously, and turned most of the historic baths to other uses or shut their doors completely.
Flow and gossip fun and talk through the hot air filled with steam.
And sits a few women as well as bathtub, Asakbn water on their bodies and their babies, before moving towards the large marble slab in the middle of the bathroom. And use aid rough sponges to clean the skin of visitors.



And perhaps move toward conversations selected candidates for the marriage of their children, or comments on the naked bodies of young women. After completion of the sponge, comes the stage of strong soap and massage. All of this was a common scene in the Turkish baths in Istanbul in the decades gone by.
Today, a visit to a spa experience is quite different, the first thing contemplated when you go to the bathroom «Cemberlitas» in the center of old Istanbul is filled with glass shelves carefully colored bathing products offered for sale. Women of the light-skinned Erkdn smooth on a stone in a warm room, which is usually a hot well, even during the hot summer months.



The day the sun shines through the windows in the dome and roof of the bathroom and its rays fall on the interior design of the bath Almsdan white marble. And rub the workers who are in the bathroom dressed «bikini» Gently bodies of the guests of the women with soap. Not hear the whispers in the bathroom, the bathroom and disappeared role as a place to network and exchange information as it was out of date.






According to Rosen, Al Taji, the owner of bath «Cemberlitas»: «the era of the old baths ended». In the past, visit the bathroom is the only time you can wipe the Turks time with themselves freely, «but these days they can frequenting bars, cinemas and commercial markets», and that most of the houses became the bathrooms private, which reduces the importance of the public toilets. This explains why the traditional Turkish baths turned into a magnet for tourists.

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