The word "bath" in the broad European sense means any place for bathing. The peoples of the world have their own traditions of building and using such bathing facilities. For the first time, the description of the bathhouse can be found at Herodotus in his stories about the Scythians, and during archaeological excavations, baths were discovered in Ancient Greece and Rome. We will not go deep into history, but consider the most beautiful baths, as well as their arrangement among various peoples.
The most famous baths in the world
In the photo: Bathhouse in black.
First, consider the famous baths, in which you can relax not only with your body, but also with your soul. Experts note that the bathhouse is one of the best ways to rejuvenate the body and restore vitality.
✅ "Gellert." Budapest
A beautiful and comfortable bath complex in the capital of Hungary opened to visitors in 1918. Over time, lovers began to come here to take a steam bath from different parts of the world.
The refined interior, marble columns, gilded staircases, as well as bright stained-glass windows and decorative mosaics make Gellert look like a cathedral.
The complex includes traditional Roman baths, Turkish hammams. You can enjoy the beauty and convenience of equipped steam rooms and baths, common among other nations.
✅ Gedik Pasha. Istanbul
Gedik Pasha was built in 1475 and is considered the oldest hammam in Turkey. For all this time he has kept his traditional national interior.
A majestic vault rises above the entrance to the male half, resembling a stalactite cave with its appearance. Inside, the traditional ornament and the marble interior traditional for Turkish baths have been preserved.
According to the Eastern tradition, Turkish public baths are divided into male and female departments. Unlike the Russian bath, they don’t use a broom here, but they will offer an unusual soap peeling by rubbing the body with a special washcloth.
By the way, on our site most-beauty.ru there is an interesting article about the most beautiful girls in Turkey.
✅ Xiao Nan Guo Tang Hye Yuan. Shanghai
The five-story building in Chinese Shanghai is striking in its grandeur, and this, it turns out, is the famous and best bathhouse in China
At the entrance you will wear bright Hawaiian clothes instead of boring white sheets. Visitors during the entire visit are accompanied by a soothing melody. There are saunas and steam rooms, and in addition, you can plunge into a bathtub filled with milk.
A range of wellness treatments is offered. Visitors are waiting for massage rooms, wrapping procedures. After washing, you can drink a cup of traditional Chinese tea and sing karaoke. It is here that you can find harmony, have a good rest and gain new strength.
✅ Dragon Hill Spa. Seoul
Korean baths are a rather peculiar ritual that takes at least 12 hours for a self-respecting Korean.
The bath complex of the South Korean capital has everything from equipped steam rooms, showers to a cinema and a golf club. It will definitely not be boring here. An electronic key is issued at the entrance, which serves as a pass to all branches.
There are 12 pools with water of different temperatures, spa rooms, salt caves and cafes. After visiting the steam rooms and swimming in the pools, anyone can relax in the cinema by watching an interesting film.
✅ Abanotubani. Tbilisi
The capital of Georgia boasts an entire city block in which baths built on natural sulfur springs function.
The rooms are built in the traditional Persian architectural style. Sunlight falls into squat buildings through a glass dome.
At the entrance to one of the complexes there is a commemorative plaque. The inscription conveys the words of Alexander Pushkin, who wrote that he had not seen anything in the world more luxurious than Tiflis baths.
On this and other sights of Tbilisi on our site most-beauty.ru there is informative material.
✅ Tokyo baths Daikoku-Yu. Tokyo
In traditional Japanese sento, instead of steam rooms are large wooden barrels of hot water. It is in them that people sit and sweat.
The best bath in Japan is considered to be Daikoku-U, and it began to operate in 1927. At the end of the twentieth century, the interior decoration was significantly changed, but on the outside it resembles a Buddhist temple.
On one of the walls is the sacred Mount Fuji. Tokyo sento has a patio with an open-air bath. Nearby are comfortable gazebos, a lot of greenery, stone lamps traditional for Japan.
✅ Sanduns. Moscow
Built in the Bonar style by architect Boris Freidenberg, the Sandunovskie public baths in Moscow opened in 1808 and are still operating today. They got their name by the name of their first owner Sila Nikolaevich Sandunov.
The three-story building was rebuilt several times, and elements of Baroque, Gothic and Classicism appeared in its architecture. The floors are covered with elite tiles brought from Europe. The ceiling and walls are painted with frescoes.
In 1991, the building was given the status of an architectural monument of the Russian capital, and their interior more than once became the scenery of feature films and TV shows.
Bath designs
It's time to consider the different varieties of baths.
🔵 Brick
Brick baths began to be built relatively recently, but this building material quickly became popular for the construction of a place for bathing and relaxing in the steam room in the country.
Firstly, brick is a durable material, and such a construction will last a long time. Secondly, the brick building copes with humidity perfectly, and most importantly, it keeps the temperature regime.
🔵 From a log
Our photo gallery continues beautiful log baths. Projects are different. Wood is a material that allows you to fantasize. You can build a bath with a veranda, a beautiful terrace, make an unusual carved porch.
Chopped saunas and steam rooms from round timber are built on a turn-key basis according to established Russian traditions.
🔵 Squared
In ancient Russia, baths were built of wood. Because the timber baths have become a kind of synthesis of modern technology and ancient Russian traditions.
This is a relatively new technology, but timber structures have become popular in construction.
🔵 From blocks
Another material that is often used to build a bath. You can build a small frame 4 × 4, and sheathe the structure with various materials.
The advantage is that expanded clay blocks are a relatively inexpensive material. They do not rot from moisture, and the fungus does not start on them.
🔵 Wireframe
You can build such a bath with your own hands on the simplest projects found on the Internet. Such buildings do not require a solid foundation, and you can build such a small bathhouse in one month.
Like most country baths, these one-story buildings are small in weight, and therefore do not give much shrinkage.
Baths of unusual shapes
Human imagination knows no bounds, and therefore you can see baths and saunas in very unusual forms. Most-beauty offers you photographs of such structures here.
⚫ Irish
In Europe, such places for swimming are gaining popularity. In fact, these are revived ancient Roman baths.
The room is divided into three compartments with different temperatures. The third is the hottest. It is decorated with bricks with holes through which hot steam enters the steam room.
⚫ Turkish
Hammams in Turkey also emerged from Roman terms. The temperature in them is maintained from 35 to 55 degrees, because they are not as hot as Russian or Finnish.
The air in the room is heated by heating the marble, which is covered with steam rooms. Now in every Turkish village there are such structures, and in Ankara itself there are more than 100 of them. According to the Turkish type, many baths of the countries of the East are arranged.
The device of the Russian bath
Now let's look at the traditional Russian bath from the inside, and find out how it works.
⚪ Dressing room
The bath begins with a dressing room. In the classical sense, the dressing room served as a locker room, and was also used to store equipment. He also did not allow the cold to enter the steam room.
Today, the dressing room is also used as a rest room. Depending on the functions, a dressing room is equipped. They now put a small set of furniture, consisting of a table and chairs. Sometimes they put armchairs, traditional beautiful shops.
It will be useful to hang a mirror. Unlike the steam room, there can also be windows, so it is necessary to hang curtains on them so that vacationers feel alone.
⚪ washing
Central room. Now they are often called steam rooms. A furnace is equipped in it, as well as sunbeds and benches. Previously, such beds were called canopies.
The main structural element is the oven. It is thanks to the furnace that the temperature regime is maintained, water and air are heated. Stoves used to be laid out of bricks using stones. Now there are various stoves: from traditional wood-burning stoves to cast-iron and steel stoves.
The steam room in the bathhouse is a place where physical and mental strength is restored. It depends on the steam room with what mood a person will leave the bathhouse.
In modern saunas, pools are often equipped, but in the old days natural reservoirs, rivers or lakes were used as a pool, in which saunas were built.
Summary
Now for sure no one will say when and how people began to use the baths for the first time. But there is one legend that tells that raindrops fell through the roof onto the hot stones of the hearth, filling the house with steam. Being in such a room, a person noticed that strength is restored much faster. So, according to this legend, baths appeared on the earth.
Article author: Valery Skiba