Oruç Pasha Hamam

The Oruç Pasha Hamam (Greek: Χαμάμ του Ορούτς Πασά, from Turkish: Oruç Paşa Hamami), also known as the Bath of Whispers (Turkish: Fısıltı Hamami) or the Baths of Love[1] is an Ottoman bath dating from around 1398-1399 near the banks of the Erythropotamos river, in Didymoteicho, northern Greece.

[2] Today it stands in a very poor state with plant life all over it, although restoration works are planned.

According to Dutch Ottomanologist historian Machiel Kiel, this hamam is among the oldest Ottoman hamams found within the borders of Greece, as it was built between 1398 and 1399, mere decades after Didymoteicho's conquest by Sultan Murad I in 1361.

[2] The hamam was open until the early twentieth century,[3] and is now the oldest surviving Ottoman bathhouse in Europe.

[2] Due to its special acoustics, in this hamam lovers were able to express their passion while the Sublime Porte could be informed of the secrets of exiled pashas.