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Helsinki sees seaside sauna renaissance
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Helsinki sees seaside sauna renaissance

Several new sauna buildings have impressively transformed parts of the Helsinki waterfront, increasing the number of public saunas where visitors and locals can go for an authentic Finnish sauna experience – and a bracing dip in the Baltic Sea.

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The heat is on!
Life & societyLifestyle

The heat is on!

Finns have built the world’s biggest sauna, which doubles the size of the previous Guinness World Record.

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Saturday means sauna in Finland
Life & societyLifestyle

Saturday means sauna in Finland

On Sauna Day bathers can get steamed up in venues not normally open to the public, including luxury saunas, rustic wooden saunas, a tube sauna, and a Mongolian yurt.

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Seeking the real Finnish sauna
Life & societySociety

Seeking the real Finnish sauna

We visit the exclusive yet modest Finnish Sauna Society just outside Helsinki. If Finland can be said to have an official sauna, then this is it.

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Bare facts of the sauna in Finland
A person is sitting on a wooden bench in a sauna, with a leafy bouquet of birch twigs in the foreground.
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Bare facts of the sauna in Finland

Just say yes: If you want to get to know Finnish culture, don’t be intimidated by the sauna. With our beginner’s guide, there’s nothing to it.

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