Relaxing Hammam

HAMMAM comes from the arab world “hamma” that means “heat”. It’s the ideal place to meet, to spend time, to cure yourself and the others. The main goal is to purify the body and the mind.
The Hammam, wll-knomn like turkish bath, come from Middle East, but the roots come from greek-roman world. At the end of roman empire, the architecture of the old greek bath and the roman thermal bath inspired the Turkish people, though their baths were smaller and more modest. The Hammam is a comfort zone and a social place. In Morocco, where i spend few months, there is a Hammam in every quarter; it’s a place where to socialize, to argue about the quarter’s life and to spout about privite affairs.
The hygiene is a rule: ”Maintaining cleanliness and protecting health as proclaimed by Koran texts and hadiths of Mohammed S.A.V.S.”.
In the Hammam the women put the hennè on the hair and the black soap on the skin, before rubbing the skin with the glove or “kessa”; the folowing step it’s the rinsing and the massage.
The marble decoration and the tadelakt walls of the Hammam are very striking.