hammam
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Arab baths in Spain: the Andalusian legacy of the hammam
How the Arab baths of al-Andalus worked, what is left of them in Andalusia, and how that heritage shows up in the bathing spaces Spain has today.
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Hammam: what it is, how the bath works and where it comes from
The hammam is the public bath of the Islamic world: heated rooms, hot marble, washing and a scrub. See the sequence of a visit, the Roman inheritance and why the European “Turkish bath” is something else.
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The wet sauna myth: sauna, steam room and hammam
What is often called a wet sauna is a steam room. Understand how it differs from a Finnish sauna, why löyly matters and why hammam means something else.
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Bathhouse, spa, recovery and hot springs: what social bathing is and what sits outside it
Almost every place with a sauna and an ice tub calls itself a bathhouse. Social bathing is bathing together in a shared space: what falls inside that line, what sits outside it and the questions that tell you who you will share the room with.