MoroccoSights

Bath House sights in Morocco

  1. Les Palais Rhoul Hammam

    A classic Moroccan hammam, with separate chambers for varying levels of heat, zellij (mosaic) and tadelakt (polished plaster) walls, and sunbeams filtering through vaulted ceilings. It's oddly placed alongside a French baroque villa, amid fake Berber tents pitched in a formal garden - but don't let that deter you. The standard hammam treatment includes gommage, rhassoul with orange-flower water and massage with organic essential oils, and it really Rhouls. Treat yourself to cocktails afterwards at Abyssin and you may have to be scraped up and mailed home.

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  2. Ksar Char-Bagh Hammam

    A trip to this spectacular subterranean red-marble hammam is almost eerily like rebirth. Re-entry to the world is eased with scented essential oils, liberal application of Anne Semonin products and a mood-lit lounge area. There's also a swimming pool. Treat yourself to a hammam, velvety skin scrub, rhassoul (mud scalp rub) and 90-minute perfumed-oil massage and emerge vowing to be a better person - or at least wear more sunscreen.

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  3. Baños Árabes

    Accidentally discovered during street work, these ancient Arab baths , sit on a main road, an incongruous sight. There are two of them, with barrel-vaulted roofs originally covered with marble – the high-tech spa of its time.

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  4. Bain Maure

    The best place for a good scrub is this hammam close to the police station.

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    Hammam Zitouna

    A traditional hammam in the heart of the medina.

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