Hammam, wellness in the city
From Rome to Milan to Paris, the most exclusive spots
For those living in big cities it’s always tougher and tougher to find places where to dedicate some time to one’s own care, leaving behind daily stress. For the very needs of those necessitating to grant themselves a relaxing and beneficial break the hammam were created, currently located in many Italian cities and hosted in luxury Spas and Hotels.
The custom of the Turkish bath comes from the Middle East but finds its deepest roots in ancient Greece and ancient Rome. Beauty, body care and psychophysical wellbeing get together in this old ritual, transporting the person into a relaxing dimension thanks to the stop and the passing through a number of rooms, from the coolest to the warmest, with different steam and temperature concentrations, treatments, peeling and massages.
Numerous are the hammams in main Italian cities, starting right from the one in which the tradition of thermal baths started, that is Rome.
The AcquaMadre Hammam recalls the architecture of antique roman palaces in which, besides the traditional path, you can enjoy the benefits of different kind of treatments and massages, among which the aromatized milk massage and the argan oil massage for body and face. Templum Salutis’s aim is to recreate the old “Health Path” as it was custom in the antique thermal baths of the Roman Empire. In it, besides scrubs, hair treatments, herb teas and fruit all along the path, you can also enjoy massages of different traditions such as the Thai or Hawaiian ones. If the Cradle of Wellbeing is an area in Arabic style, furnished with furniture made in Morocco, an elegant modern space will be created at the Hotel Parco dei Principi from September on.
If in Venice the address not to be missed out is that of San Clemente Palace and in Florence that of the Grand Hotel Villa Medici, two are the facilities you can’t miss out if you are in Bologna. Marazzi exclusively uses natural products, oils and raw materials coming from bio agriculture. Here, besides the classic steam baths and the tepidarium path, steam bath and relax lounge with herb teas, you can also enjoy various types of massages, from the ayurvedic one with warm oil at two or four hands, with aromatic herbs bolus or essential oils, to the reflexology plantar massage or the shiatsu. Original shapes and colours that suggest those typical of Turkish and Middle Eastern architecture, welcome clients at the Hammam Bleu.
In Milan, the Hotel Bulgari green glass hammam evokes a mysterious emerald set in a rare beauty jewel and it plays a fundamental role as urban haven for body and mind. Another address for the Milanese is that of Via Rubens 19 where the Moresko Hammam Café is located. It’s characterized by Ottoman traditional architecture, tiles decorated by Kutahya, arches, niches and fountains that make out of it a really unique site. Inside it welcomes guests with the perfume of Orient that intensifies the more you enter the café. Besides the Oriental Happy Hour it’s also possible to lunch or dine at the end of the paths, just wearing a bathrobe on the kilim and the pillows of the relax lounge. At the Café Letterario there’s the Hammam della Rosa, characterized, as well, by a typically oriental environment, as the Hammam Sahara. Dynamic and young is the atmosphere surrounding the Royal Hammam, two thousand squared metres dedicated to Turkish baths, Finnish saunas, Jacuzzis with water games and side waterfalls, cold steam showers, bar, eating area, video lounge and much more.
The Turin Hammam Al Bab has: library, restaurant, cultural centre and conference hall. The style is typically Arabic, whereas the different environments spread over a circular plant around the relax lounge characterize the Hafa Hammam in which the benefits of the Turkish bath can be perfected at the aesthetic centre next door.
In Naples you can’t definitely miss our the area dedicated to the Turkish bath at the Grand Hotel Parker’s. Very minimalist and elegant style at the Hammam Palermo in the homonym Sicilian city.
If you ever happen to be in Paris and you feel the need to find some time for yourself, you can go to the Ville D’Avray at the Les Etangs de Corot, at the doors of Versailles, where Caudalie finds a new, fascinating frame against which to celebrate the treatments of Winetherapie. Of the seven hundred metres dedicated to the Spa, a part is dedicated to the Turkish bath where you are welcomes by the noises of water flowing down a stone wall and reaching the earth on a shingles’ carpet.
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