Byzantine Bath of Thessaloniki
Domed medieval bathhouse with cold, warm and hot rooms, in use for nearly seven centuries.
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This guide to the Byzantine Bath in Thessaloniki's Upper Town starts with a fourteenth-century scholar's boast about his city's bathhouses, then follows nearly seven centuries of Byzantine and Ottoman bathers through the same cold, warm and hot rooms. It touches on how men and women shared the building under two empires. Best heard standing beneath the domed hot room.
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