Ira Baths is the oldest gay bathhouse in Athens, inside an arcade off Zinonos near Omonia Square. It began as an ordinary Turkish hammam and became a gay venue, and it still looks and feels like the former.
It is a daytime place rather than a night one, small, and the crowd is mature men. There is a hammam, a sauna, private rooms and a cruising area including a darkroom.
The entrance is easy to walk past: it is inside the arcade, not on the street. There is no website and no Facebook page, only an Instagram account, which is where anything the house announces gets posted.
The people in this picture are AI-generated.
