Bey Hamam (Paradise Baths)
Fifteenth-century Ottoman double bathhouse with painted domes and a stalactite-carved ceiling.
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This guide to Bey Hamam on Egnatia Street in Thessaloniki follows Sultan Murad the Second through fourteen forty-four, the year his name went up over this bathhouse door and the year he tried to give up his throne. It reaches from a truce with Hungary to a cardinal, a crusade and a battlefield near the Black Sea. Stand by the men's entrance, where the Arabic inscription sits above the door.
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