Kissebükü Baths
- Location
- Péninsule de Bodrum, Muğla, Turquie, Turkey
- Water type
- thermal
- pH
- 7.3
Water profile
Rich in trace elements — gentle on the skin.
Soft water — natural, classic buoyancy.
The Kissebükü Baths are a historic hammam in Bodrum District of Muğla Province in southwestern Turkey, on the ancient Halicarnassus peninsula that is today one of Turkey's most celebrated Aegean resort destinations, famous for its Crusader Castle of St. Peter, its vibrant marina, and the ruins of the Mausoleum. Named after the Kissebükü bay or cove where they are located — one of the many sheltered inlets along the deeply indented Bodrum coastline — the baths served the local community of a coastal settlement whose fishing and maritime heritage predates the modern tourism economy that has transformed the peninsula. The hammam represents the Ottoman civic layer of a peninsula whose history encompasses ancient Carian culture, the Persian satrap Maussollos, Hellenistic and Roman urbanism, Byzantine settlement, Crusader fortification, and Ottoman provincial governance.