Hammam chahār fasl
The hammam chahar fasl (lett of the four seasons) similar to a historical monument is located in the city of Arāk (Markazi region) and was built at the end of the qajaro period. The reason for choosing the "four seasons" name for this ancient and beautiful hammam is the presence of paintings and paintings depicting the four seasons of the year found at the four corners of this bathroom.
The building of this hammam from the architectural point of view is very original, it measured more than 1600 square meters of surface and was known as the largest hammam in Iran. It consisted of various parts such as the entrance corridor, the beautiful male and female dressing room with a dome of a single block and without columns, the private and public calidarium and the vestibule between the calidarium, the khazineh and the water warehouse.
The surface of the architectural floor of this building was almost three meters lower than the street level therefore the water of the Qanat was transmitted to the khazineh easily and with less heat loss.
The ceiling of all the parts of the hammam was dome-shaped with brick, plaster and lime while the floor was covered with black stones, lime mortar and cement. A black-stone cross-shaped tub stood in the dressing room floor with around four seats.
Inlaid and geometric encaustic tiles in yellow, light blue, turquoise, white, green, gray, red and orange with very beautiful paintings depicting man, animals, different plants and floral motifs, ivy, grape trees, cypresses, the fight between the lion and the bull and also images of soldiers wearing clothes from the qajaro period, are among the most important decorations in the public bath.
This historic hammam that has now been used as a museum in two sectors, archaeological and anthropological, has several ancient objects of the pre and post-slamic period as: coins of different historical periods, marriage contracts of the qajaro period, books and manuscripts, crockery copper and engraved, earthenware jars, spinning objects, ancient objects of the hammam, epigraphs and agricultural and defense tools, anthropological statues and also the skeleton of a man of 7500 years ago that was found in the Sarskhati hill of Shāzand .
