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"For the Finns the sauna has always been important. In existence for at least a thousand years, there are about 1.5 million saunas in Finland today, and considering the Finland’s population is around five million, that’s a lot of saunas..."
"The sauna is a specially built insulated room or cabin which is heated to 71 - 100 degrees Celsius (160 - 212 Fahrenheit) by means of rocks heated by preferably wood, but also by electricity and gas. It is used for bathing nude in the hot air.."
"A sauna (also sweathouse, sudatory) is a small room or house designed as a place to experience dry or wet heat sessions, or an establishment with one or more of these and auxiliary facilities."
"The function of the Finnish Sauna Society is to preserve the traditional native sauna culture, spread information about it, correct wrong impressions about the sauna, emphasize the meaning of sauna bathing for a healthy life and also to develop the sauna of the present day."
"Sauna is a Finnish hot air bath. In colloquial English, many Finnish-Americans say they go sauna and they take a sauna or sauna bath. In other words, sauna is both the bathhouse and the bath…"