Kurdunos Baths

The Kurdunos Baths are a historic Ottoman hammam in Niğde District of Niğde Province in central Anatolia, in the provincial capital of a region at the foot of the Taurus Mountains near the ancient Cappadocian landscape of volcanic rock formations, underground cities, and Byzantine cave churches. Niğde is a city of considerable Ottoman and Seljuk heritage — its 13th-century Alaeddin Mosque and the Ak Medrese are among the most significant Anatolian Seljuk monuments in central Turkey — and its hammam tradition reflects the sophisticated civic culture of a city that served as an important administrative centre throughout the Seljuk, Karamanid, and Ottoman periods. The Kurdunos Baths served the community of this central Anatolian city, positioned at the junction of routes connecting the Cilician coast to the Anatolian interior through the famous Cilician Gates.