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Known for its stunning landscapes and rich cultural heritage, Finland also has a variety of traditional customs that have ...

The lowest and coolest area in traditional Finnish saunas is often used for washing, as in Mattila & Merz’s 2017 Sauna in the Yard in the artists’ colony of Fiskars.

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There are also reports in the medical literature of people who have fallen ill and even died after diving straight from the heat of a sauna into ice cold water. One 1998 study, for example ...

Traditional Finnish saunas use heated rocks to increase the temperature in the room. In a dry sauna, the room’s temperature reaches up to 195°F (90.5°C) with very low humidity.