Cornucopia 41 : Inside Istanbul's Grand Hammams

HAMMAMS

The grand baths of Istanbul

Nowhere does the golden age of Ottoman life survive more vividly, and enjoyably, than in the hammam.
Architecture, etiquette, gossip and sheer pleasure - keyif- are the essential ingredients.
In the 16th century there were as many as 150 hammams in the market-places of Istanbul.
Today there are far fewer, but the culture
miraculously lives on.

A glorious forty-page feature with photographs
by Fritz von der Schulenburg