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The Finnish sauna (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈsɑu̯nɑ], Swedish: bastu) is a substantial part of Finnish [2] [3] [4] and Estonian culture. [5]It was inscribed on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists at the 17 December 2020 meeting of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage.
Moreover, nearly all Finnish houses have either their own sauna or in multistory apartment houses, a timeshare sauna. Public saunas were previously common, but the tradition has declined when saunas have been built nearly everywhere (private homes, municipal swimming halls, hotels, corporate headquarters, gyms, etc.).
Korean sauna culture and kiln saunas are still popular today, and Korean saunas are ubiquitous. [9] Women in Sauna with Vihtas in the middle of the 20th century in Finland [10] Western saunas originated in Finland where the oldest known saunas were made from pits dug in a slope in the ground and primarily used as dwellings in winter. The sauna ...
Finnish saunas are an important aspect of Finnish culture and have been a significant part of their lifestyle for centuries. In Finland, saunas are not just a place to bathe but are considered to be a place for physical and spiritual purification, relaxation, and socialization. [11] [12] The traditional Finnish sauna is a wooden structure ...
Pages in category "Culture of Finland" The following 67 pages are in this category, out of 67 total. ... Sauna; Finnish sauna; Sauna whisk; Sirkus Finlandia; Sisu;
Rajaportin sauna. Rajaportin sauna is Finland's oldest working public sauna. The sauna was founded in 1906 in Pispala in Tampere. [1]
The Finnish sauna is an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Finland. The Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage was ratified in Finland in May 2013. . The Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture has assigned the responsibility for implementing the convention to the National Board of Antiquities which is currently drafting a model for its execution in Finl
SkyWheel Helsinki is a 40-meter (131 feet) tall Ferris wheel in central Helsinki, Finland. One of its gondola cabins, the SkySauna, is the world's first sauna on a Ferris wheel. [ 1 ] It opened to the public on June 3, 2014. [ 2 ]