Holidays are a time to unwind and get away from our busy urban lives. When we think of holidays, we think of a time of repose and peace. We usually look for destinations where we can immerse ourselves in a placid atmosphere and feel pampered and caressed. Hammams and spas in Marrakech offer you an incomparable chance not only to rest, relax, and rejuvenate, but also to enjoy the many pleasures of a charming city as well as many healthy activities for a complete physical and spiritual well-being.
Although there is nowadays an important increase in the use of spas and traditional baths, their existence dates back to pre-historic times. Spas and traditional baths combine three main purposes: hygiene, health and sheer pleasure. Traditionally, spas were located in hot or cold springs and aimed at effecting a cure of some medical conditions. Also, it was believed that bathing in some particular waters resulted in physical and spiritual purification.
Spas became well known in Greek and Roman times and there are many impressive remains of ancient baths throughout Europe, although baths were also widely spread among Persians, Babylonians or Egyptians.
During medieval times, spas became almost exclusively a place for medical cures and fro the treatment of several diseases. But in the 18th century, they regained their luxurious character and they became, as in the Greek and Roman periods, a treat and an indulgence for upper-class Europeans.The Middle-Eastern and North African version of spas is the Hammam or traditional Turkish bath, which is a variant of steam baths, similar to a sauna. But steal is just one of the elements of hammams, which include many other treats, such as massage, exfoliating sessions, skin treatments with natural essences and perfumes, etc.
There are many types of hammams and spa resorts in Marrakech. Depending on the atmosphere, the kinds of treatment you want and your budget, you can experience, on the one hand, the modest, authentic and popular hammams, which found throughout the city, usually close or adjacent to mosques. On the other hand, you can go to the more luxurious, opulent and incredibly elegant hammams and spa resorts found in many hotels and riads in Marrakech.
The services offered by the best spas and hammams in Marrakech are countless and they include treatments both for the body and the mind. There, you can enjoy facials and skin-peels or exfoliation treatments for your skin, body treatments such as body wraps or aromatherapy to relax, incredible massages with natural essences and oils or simple but enormously relaxing and invigorating steam-baths in wonderfully decorated hammams.
Treatments can go on for several days and can be very complete, including advice from health professionals that will help you to make the necessary changes in your daily routines in order to achieve the most positive effect on your overall health and fitness. The best hammams and spa resorts offer fitness programs that are tailored to meet your requirements in terms of health and well-being and they will often suggest programs that also focus on a healthy and balanced nutrition as well as on a wide range of alternative activities and pastimes for your pleasure and welfare.
Some of the best riads and guest houses in Marrakech have their own hammams, often free for their guests. They often personify the liaison between two ways of life and two cultures, merging to create a magical place, between modernism and tradition. Hammams and spas in Marrakech are elegant, luxurious and utterly delightful. Their treatments are true caresses and their cares are but pleasures.
Treat Yourself to a Hammam Or Spa in Marrakech