The Düzce Baths, in Çeşme, İzmir province, Turkey, draw on thermal water at 42°C. A steam room, a marble-slab kessa scrub, beldi soap and massage round out this bathing stop on the Aegean coast.
Insider tip — The Düzce Baths near Çeşme on the İzmir peninsula draw on the abundant geothermal springs that gave the resort town its name (Çeşme means fountain). These Roman-era thermae harnessed the volcanic geology of the Aegean peninsula — the same geothermal system that today feeds Çeşme's upscale thermal hotels — in a landscape where ancient Greek, Roman, and Ottoman bathing cultures all drew on the peninsula's generous endowment of hot mineral water rising from beneath the turquoise coast.