IN Finland these many years a special love for the sauna. You can not believe it, but in this country there are about 2 million saunas! In every town and village even has a Finnish sauna, as well as shops that sold various bath attributes. Museum is very popular in which talk about any visitor history and traditions of the Finnish bath.
First mention of the baths appear more than 2 thousand years agoAnd researchers estimate that one of the first prototypes of the modern baths appeared in the Stone Age!
In the legends of the peoples of the north it refers to the Neanderthals who trying to keep warm in the cave, threw a very heavy fire, after a while it is overheating and I ran on the outside to jump into a snowbank. His like these sensations and he told them about his countrymen. It took a long time, but we still love a good warm up in the bath, and then jump into the icy font or snow.
Sauna - a kind of bath. In ancient times it was a mud hut with a stone hearth, but after the 12th century a new kind of saunas. First, build a house made of logs with a bathroom, a chimney while it was not, so after each visit to the sauna had to wash the soot. These saunas use until the 19th centuryLater they appeared the chimney, and the number of rooms has increased to 2, there was a common room where you can relax after the procedure or to prepare for the sauna. Particularly popular obtained sauna after World War II in northern America and Europe.
In Finland, saunas are not indifferent to the - in homes and even apartments are equipped with a small sauna, and large apartments at the public bath is allocated a basement.
"Sauna is the best medicine for the poor" - a saying which is popular among Finns.
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