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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 .
Nils Selvälä moved the sauna, but used it from then on as a shed, taking the money his family had won in court to build a bigger, nicer sauna elsewhere on their property. [ 1 ] In 1979 the original 1868 savusauna, which had been moved a number of times since the 1880s, was moved one last time to Cokato's Temperance Corner, named for the ...
(Finnish Sauna: Design, Construction and Maintenance, Rakennustietosäätiö Oy (5th ed. 2003), pgs. 35–36.) An accompanying chart shows 70–88°C to be "mild" (depending upon humidity), 78–98°C to be "moderate," and 88–105°C to be "strong" and observes that the "mild" range is "best suited to children and the elderly."
Illustration of a Finnish sauna in 1804 by Giuseppe Acerbi. As a result of the Industrial Revolution, the sauna evolved to use a wood-burning metal stove with rocks on top, kiuas, with a chimney. Air temperatures averaged around 75–100 °C (167–212 °F) but sometimes exceeded 110 °C (230 °F) in a traditional Finnish sauna. [14]
The bath has six therapy pools and one swimming pool where the temperature is in between 10 and 42 °C (50 and 108 °F). ... Aroma sauna. Dry sauna. Finnish sauna ...
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 ]
The sauna room is typically heated by a wood-burning stove or an electric heater, and the heat is generated by pouring water over heated rocks. This creates steam and humidity. The temperature inside a traditional Finnish sauna can reach up to 80-100 °C. [13]
Löyly (Finnish:) is a public sauna, restaurant and bar in Hernesaari, Helsinki, Finland. Its address is Hernesaarenranta 4. Löyly opened in 2016. [1] Löyly's owner is actor Jasper Pääkkönen. The building is designed by Avanto Architects Ltd. Hernesaari is a former industrial area on the Helsinki sea shore that will be built into a ...