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Chifte Hamam

Chifte Hamam is a historic Ottoman bath in Plovdiv and a cultural monument that adds an important everyday and urban layer to the map of the old city.

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Chifte Hamam
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How to read this place

Chifte Hamam is a 16th-century Ottoman “double bath” — a rare everyday layer of old Filibe, surviving today as a cultural monument.

Built
1582
Type
Ottoman bath
Status
cultural monument

The double bath

The bath was built in 1582 during the Ottoman period. The name “chifte” means “double” — separate sections for men and women beneath domes pierced with the characteristic star-shaped light openings.

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The everyday city

As a cultural monument, Chifte Hamam adds an important everyday and urban layer to the map of old Plovdiv — a reminder that the city lived not only in temples and fortresses but in its baths.

Source trail: Wikidata — Chifte Hamam ↗
Today and what to notice

Current status

Publicly documented historic site; detailed status and access still need verification.

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Public Wikidata record

Type
hammam
Status/protection
monument
Inception
1582
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Traces and evidence

Current status

Publicly documented historic site; detailed status and access still need verification.

Ownership, care and institutions

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Coordinates
42.15201, 24.74980 · wikidata_coordinate
Built/date
Ottoman period
Architect/builder
not identified in the current public source
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