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@7:25 Detached houses like that (that are within city limits) usually have a sauna in the main building, while in the countryside, where you don't have neighbors right next to you, and in summer cottages and such you can more commonly find saunas in separate buildings.
@16:19 Lake Bodom is infamous for the triple murder that happened there in 1960. Finnish metal band Children of Bodom also got their name from it.
Saunas have been part of Finnish tradition for thousands of years; according to research, at least since 7000 BC, and in the old days, when Finns moved from one place to another, the sauna was usually the first building that was built. So it's no wonder that the Finnish sauna tradition has even been included as a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage, because it is in a class of its own in its uniqueness.
Saunas are a thing especially in the summer, like those at the lake.
I usually heat my sauna twice a week around the year.
of course we drink beer and long drink in the sauna!
Pretty much all individual houses have their own sauna. Pre-WW2 and still in the 40's and 50's, the sauna was usually in an outbuilding, but starting from the 60's, it was built within the walls of the main building itself. In later renovations, older buildings often got the sauna moved into the house by sacrificing some other space. In rowhouses, typically each unit has its own sauna, but in cheaper ones it could be a bigger, shared one. The same with apartment buildings, where there may be a bigger sauna or two downstairs, so that denizens can reserve an hour for themselves once or twice a week, or each apartment may have its own sauna. Older apartment buildings are more likely to have a shared sauna.
In the very recent years there's an unfortunate trend to build exceedingly tiny apartments, which might not have a sauna at all, yet the building might not have a shared sauna either, so the people living in those tiny apartments must find their opportunities elsewhere. Of course there are Finns who dislike sauna or can't use one due to medical reasons, so they wouldn't mind.
Public saunas used to be commonplace maybe up till 50 years ago, but then they all but disappeared. Nowadays they have been making a slight comeback. I'm only referring to places that only offer the sauna service, as swimming pools, gyms, and such of course would have had them all the time, but it's not their main selling point.
That's another reason to love Finland - "pretty much all individual houses have their own sauna"
Sauna is important to Finnish people, because historically it was where people were born and died. Women gave birth in the sauna because the heat helped them relax and there was hot water available. When people were seriously ill, they were taken to the sauna because people firmly believed that it had healing powers. Whether it actually helped probably depended on what was wrong with them. There is an old saying that "if sauna, booze and tar doesn't help, then we dig a grave" ("jos ei sauna, viina ja terva auta, sitten kaivetaan hauta"). Dead bodies were washed in the sauna before burial.
Oh, and always remember to behave respectfully in the sauna, because otherwise the sauna elf (saunatonttu) will kill you. That's a fact.
The sauna elf! Saunatonttu!
Thanks to Miika who has made a lot of themed maps of Finland. They are all very fun to play!
I lost 3 points exactly like you on round 2, but I could 5k the first, last and Helsinki rounds NMPZ. Of course with home ground advantage because the first and last were in my home city.
You asked about beverages in sauna. People have their own habits, and some drink in sauna and some after it. I prefer not to drink in sauna, but I drink beer after.
On some round you asked if that kind of private home houses have saunas, and yes, every single one has a sauna. Nowadays I heat up my sauna about once a week.
By the way, we have had a joke for years together with my friends that a real sauna is heated by firewood, and electric sauna is just a sauna simulator 😀
Yes - thanks to Miika. Would people use the sauna during the recent hot weather?
@@alloverthemap23 yes, even then. It's nice to have cool shower after it and perhaps swim if there's a lake next to the sauna.
Finland has only two cites that has tramlines, Helsinki and Tampere. Just a small hint for next games.
Espoo aswell :)
@@Videottakaperin eeehh 🤔 Just one line.
Sauna is literally a Finnish word, that's why we have loads of them here.
Going to sauna is addictive like cocaine and also a cultural thing like apple pie: "Getting NAKED With Locals in Finland", "Rajaportti Sauna: My Fave Finnish City: Tampere & Finlands Oldest Sauna", "Trying Finnish Self Care Summer Habits | Ep.1 | Peaceful Cottage Culture", "Sauna culture in Finland", "Sauna: Finnish Relaxation in Minnesota", "Finlandia Foundation National An Authentic Finnish Sauna" and "YKSK - Yhdistyneiden Kansakuntien Suomen Komppania 1956-1957".
If you do sauna related game, please pronounce it correctly 😀. Most english speakers say it's a soowna.
English has two different ways to pronounce it. It's that sort of language, which is also the most difficult aspect of the otherwise easy language. Finnish is the complete opposite: everything else is difficult, but pronunciation is extremely simple. Ironically native English speakers are used to complicated pronunciation due to their own language, so the simple Finnish pronunciation can be challenging, as strange as it sounds like.
Keep in mind that "sauna" in English is an English word, loaned from Finnish, so they deal with it however they want. Finnish has loaned thousands of words from Germanic languages and also uses them however it wants. Typically Finns remove "excess" consonants from the beginning and add a vowel, most often "i", to the end of the word. Like "skruv" (Swedish, screw) into "ruuvi". No Swede will tell you that you are pronouncing it wrong, by omitting consonants and adding a vowel, when you are speaking Finnish. That's how Finnish works since words written must resemble the sound pronounced. In English, however, there're no such strict rules between how a word is written and pronounced. Often you simply need to know it beforehand.