Russian sauna with sauna master and traditional tea ceremony

Russian sauna with sauna master and traditional tea ceremony

Russian bathhouse is the oldest Russian tradition that Russians still love to this day. When Russians visit the Banya, they are sure to bathe with a broom (using special technology) and drink Russian tea with traditional Russian snacks. Our guests have a chance to find out how Russians like to relax in the Russian Banya.

Itinerary

Russian sauna called Banya. Banya is an extremely popular Russian tradition. It has already been popular since pre-Christian times and it is still popular today.

What the banya is
Speaking generally a banya is a room equipped for washing people with water, hot air and steam. Various types of baths have been known since ancient times.

Russian banya culture has old traditions a lot of which are still followed nowadays. The traditional Russian banya consists of three rooms:

A predbannik is a room where people can change and leave their clothes, as well as they can have rest between going into the steam room.
A washing room is a room where people can wash.
A steam room (parilka) is a rather small room with a high temperature. There are also hot stones in parilka on which you splash water in order to get hot steam.

You have the opportunity to enjoy a Russian bath in all Russian traditions-with Sauna master(who will help you relax and show how it Russians do) and russian traditional tea ceremony(herb tea with delicious russian snakes)

Stop At:

• St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Northwestern District