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A sauna (/ ˈ s ɔː n ə, ˈ s aʊ n ə /, [1] [2] Finnish: [ˈsɑu̯nɑ]) is a room or building designed as a place to experience dry or wet heat sessions, or an establishment with one or more of these facilities. The steam and high heat make the bathers perspire.
The Russian banya is the closest relative of the Finnish sauna. In modern Russian, a sauna is often called a "Finnish banya", though possibly only to distinguish it from other ethnic high-temperature bathing facilities such as Turkish baths referred to as "Turkish banya". Sauna, with its ancient history amongst Nordic and Uralic peoples, is a ...
Archaeological works at the monastic complex in the Makurian city of Hambukol, has revealed the possible use of one of its rooms as a steam bath. [ 2 ] Historical parts of a spa — Roman , medieval , Georgian and Victorian have been restored in Bath, England and is available as a public bath or Thermae .
Steam Portland is a gay bathhouse located in the Kerns neighborhood of northeast Portland, Oregon, United States. It opened in 2003. It opened in 2003. The bathhouse has been called "sleek". [ 1 ]
Some of the earliest public baths are found in the ruins in of the Indus Valley civilization.According to John Keay, the "Great Bath" of Mohenjo Daro in present-day Pakistan was the size of 'a modest municipal swimming pool', complete with stairs leading down to the water at each one of its ends.
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.
A storyboard for an animated cartoon, showing the number of drawings (~70) needed for an 8-minute film. A film storyboard (sometimes referred to as a shooting board), is essentially a series of frames, with drawings of the sequence of events in a film, similar to a comic book of the film or some section of the film produced beforehand.
Entrance to the sentō at the Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum. Sentō (銭湯) is a type of Japanese communal bathhouse where customers pay for entrance. Traditionally these bathhouses have been quite utilitarian, with a tall barrier separating the sexes within one large room, a minimum of lined-up faucets on both sides, and a single large bath for the already washed bathers to sit in ...