Monthly Archives: July 2014

Valide Sultana Hammam

The steam bath was built in the seventeenth century, and was dedicated to the sultan’s mother.

It had six chambers, and was heated by an underfloor heating system (hypocaust).

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Fragment of the original floor & the heating system underneath it.

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Possibly a flue for hot air circulation..