On Friday, June 7, 2024, at 12:00 p.m., at the Turkish bath located in the courtyard of the Golești mansion, will take place the opening of the exhibition “The ritual of bathing in the hammam”. The exhibition is organized by proffessor Tudor Dinu, PhD., and the Golești Museum. The exhibition will introduce you to the fascinating universe of the Greco-Ottoman Balkans, where bathing was both a personal activity and a social ritual, for the integration of the individual into the social space. The opening will be followed by the presentation of the book “Baths, hammams, delights. An illustrated history of the baths in Wallachia and Moldova” and the exhibition catalogue. Tudor Dinu documents, with the same erudition with which he has accustomed his readers, a subject that has been little studied until now: the evolution of bathrooms in Wallachia and Moldova from the 16th century to the middle of the 19th century, when the transition from oriental to western inspired lifestyle.
TUDOR DINU (b. 1978) is a qualified doctoral professor at the University of Bucharest, where he teaches Greek language, literature and civilization, and honorary doctor of the Democritus University of Thrace (Greece). Starting from the testimonies of foreign travelers from past eras and from the few vestiges of old hammams and feredeia preserved in our area, the author ended up exploring similar structures in the Balkan region, bringing to light original pieces used in the bathing ritual, either from private collections , or from the heritage of museums.
