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A spokesperson for the Finnish perm rep confirmed that the sauna is closed for renovations, but they did not have an exact timeline for when it will reopen.
Diplomats who make regular use of the facilities told POLITICO they expect it will be closed for around a year.
“The Finnish Diplomatic Sauna Society is very much alive and well this year,” the spokesperson told POLITICO.
“We’ll be making use of alternative saunas, including the one at the ambassador’s residence,” they said.
For those without diplomatic privileges, the public sauna in the Finnish Seamen’s Mission in nearby Rue Jacques de Lalaing also “offers an excellent sauna experience,” the spokesperson said.
Most Finnish diplomatic buildings have a sauna on the premises.
So important is a good sweat to Finnish politics and diplomacy that the country’s Sauna Society gives an annual award, the Löylynhenki Award, for promoting Finnish sauna culture.
The Finnish foreign ministry picked up the award in 2011 on behalf of “Finnish sauna diplomacy and sauna diplomats.”
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