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Dear Guests,
The Byzantium Hotel is
pleased to offer to you our
relaxation and beauty
procedures at the on-side
SPA Center.
One of the truly experiences
of a trip to Turkey
is not to miss a
visit to the HAMMAM(The
Turkiþh Bath) Like the
harem, the tradition of the
Turkiþh bath extends far
back,to a time before Turks
had reached Anatolýa.When
the Turks arrived in
Anatolia ,they brought with
them one bathing
tradition,and were
confronted with another,that
of Romans and
Byzantines,with certain
local variants.The
traditions merged, and with
the addition of the Moslem
concern for cleanliness and
its concornitant respect for
the uses of water,there
arose an entirely new
concept that of the Turkiþh
Bath.In time it become an
institution,with its system
of ineradicable customs.For
the Turkiþh Bath was much
more than just a place to
cleanse the skin.It was
intimately bound up with
everyday life,a place where
people of every rank and
station,young and old rich
and poor,townsman or
villager,could come freely |