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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.
Women in a Finnish sauna with vihta s in the middle of the 20th century in Finland. [1]A sauna whisk (Estonian: viht; Finnish: vasta or vihta; Lithuanian: vanta; Russian: банный веник, IPA: [ˈbanːɨj ˈvʲenʲɪk]) or bath broom is a besom, or broom, used for bathing in saunas and Russian banyas.
The culture of Finland combines indigenous heritage, ... in Enonkoski Women in sauna with Vihtas [15] Sauna is a type of dry steam bath practiced widely in Finland.
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 ...
The earliest Finnish weddings were held at both the bride's and groom's families' houses, a tradition that survived in Eastern Finland until the late 20th century. In Western Finland there were grand processions to the church, back from the church and from one of the houses to the other. The celebrations at each house lasted a day and then the ...
Danny and Sophie Strauss met at a summer camp in Ely along the edge of the Boundary Waters, and fell in love with Finnish sauna culture. The 1930s log cabin sauna Minnesota's growing sauna culture ...
A notable exception to this trend was in Finland and Scandinavia, where the sauna remained a popular phenomenon, even expanding during the Reformation period, when European bath houses were being destroyed. Finnish saunas remain an integral and ancient part of the way of life there.
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