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Thursday, September 20, 2012 Press-release

Banya & Sauna Festival and Exhibition – a truly unique event – is to take place on September 21-23 on Fountain Square in Sokolniki Park. The festival to gather together all the bath lovers; and the exhibition itself will allow everyone to learn everything about construction and equipment of bathhouses. The event business program includes daily stove-setters’ shows that are to feature speed bath stoves construction, and afterwards pies and pancakes for all the guests will be baked in the stoves. Moreover, the festival will have a workshop on bath besom binding, lots of contests and other entertainment. The Food Show will treat the visitors to some hot fragrant tea poured from a giant samovar, pilaf cooked in a giant cauldron and many other delicacies!

And, of course, the most important feature of the event is free access to mobile bathhouses, cedar barrels, giant water pools, relax-hammocks, bath massage workshops, Sweating to the Music Show. Moreover, a special project Behind the Glass to show the visitors everything that happens inside the bathhouse.

The main events of The Bath Festival on September 22nd:

10.00 a.m. – 8.00 p.m. Opening hours of “Banya & Sauna. Construction and equipment” exhibition on Fountain Square.
11.00 a.m. – 07.00 p.m. Food show (open fire cooking using exclusive equipment):
100-liter "Russky Par (Russian Steam)"
samovar (fragrant hot tea);
100-liter Dragon Gorynych kazan (pilaf cooked in a large cauldron looking like the three-headed dragon from Russian folklore);
100-centimeter "Generous Spirit" and "Kind Heart" frying-pans (fried meat and potatoes).
12.00 a.m.  – 02.00 p.m. Stove-setters show: Speed construction of Russian bathhouse stove using bathhouse bricks. Workshops by Russian Bath Association, Russian Stove-Setters’ Guild
02.00 p.m. – 07.00 p.m. Bathhouse darts and Best bath switch contest
03.30 p.m. – 04.30 p.m. Stove-setters’ show (Stage 2).

We are waiting for you at the glorious festival for body and soul in Sokolniki Park!

Last update: Thursday, September 20, 2012 6:16:55 PM

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