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Gili_S Says: Those are traditional style wooden houses, they are not old, they just built in an old design style, and you will see such in many old cities around Finland.
Gili_S Says: The harbour area is maybe the nicest and relax place to visit with lots of boats and nice terraces to have a drink and relax with the warm sunshine in the summer.
Gili_S Says: You can visit the Loviisa sea museum, not exactly spectacular one and I did not went inside this time, maybe if it was raining I would ;-)
Gili_S Says: This is the Church of Loviisa, it is in the city centre in the end of the boulevard, you surely can’t miss it.
Sininen Says: Bongan Linna is renovated by an artists couple Riitta Nelimarkka and Jaakko Seeck and is nearly 100 years old. In its museum gallery there are over 200 works by Nelimarkka from abt. 20 years. From colourful art textiles to oil paintings and drawings. Gallery is open for...
Sininen Says: Loviisa's Town Hall and church were designed by Georg Chiewitz and are thought as his best works. Town Hall is from 1862.
LysDor Says: Porvoo Cathedralis located in the centre of the Old Town.And here comes a trivia question: which one of the famous finnish formula one drivers got married here?
Have a walk in the Old Town...
LysDor Says: Have a walk in the Old Town of Porvoo or even better take a ride!Beside this very narrow and most picturesque streets you can also find the art gallery Vanha Kappalaisentalo and The Edelfelt-Vallgren art Museum.Loviisa Harbouris an award-winning clean harbour with some old...
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Gili_S Says: There are few cafes to chose from in the harbour, I would say, just pick the one which have the best table in the sun ;-)
LysDor Says: Vanha Laamanni(don´t even ask the translation) at one corner of the Porvoo Cathedral square is the place where the Porvoo Diet was held 1809.Ha-haa, what a coincidence, nowadays the restaurant is acting very far from slimming diet! The café serves excellent cakes (try the...
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It is simple to reach Porvoo and Loviisa by car from Helsinki; it´s 40 minutes to Porvoo and about 60 minutes to Loviisa.
But if one want´s to have a good sightseeing of the eastern coast, why not try one of these boat trip to Porvoo!
More information can be found at:BOAT-TRIP
Written Sep 12, 2002
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Recipe for the famous
Runeberg´s cakes (Runebergin tortut)
created by his wife Ulrika:
1 egg
1,5 dl sugar
1 dl coffee cream
1 dl ground almond
2 dl bread or cake crumbs/ rusk flour (Runeberg´s wife was so economical...)
1,5 dl melted butter (~150 gr)
1,5 dl wheat flour
1 tsp baking powder
For decoration strawberry or rasberry jam, icing
Whisk the egg and the sugar until they become a white foam. Add the cream, almonds, bread crumbs and the melted butter, mixing well. Add in the end the wheat flour and the baking powder (already mixed together earlier). Put the batter to 12-16 muffin moulds and bake in a 225 C degree preheated oven for about 15 minutes. Decorate first with a dollop of jam in the middle of the cake, then with the icing, making a circle aroud the jam. You can also moisten the cakes with some rum, punch or liqueur.
To be eaten at Runeberg´s Day 5th of February with schnaps.
For additional information check these sites:
PORVOO and
LOVIISA
Written Sep 12, 2002
Gili_S Says: This is not exactly the lighthouse we came for, but it is not such a bad one either, in case you visit with kids it will keep them busy... for a while ;-)
Gili_S Says: This is relatively small city with small centre of older city and lots of space of green gardens and fields. Great place to live in for environmentalist if you don’t mind the nuclear power station near by ;-)
Gili_S Says: While you walk in the forest, take the path to the top of the hill there is also a view tower where you can climb up and see the nice view of Loviisa.
Gili_S Says: As this is a relatively small city you can easily take a short hike to the beautiful forest just up the hill.
Gili_S Says: Everything in Loviisa is in a distance walking, so just rake it easy and stroll around the city. There is also the older part of the city with some very nice old building.
LysDor Says: In Loviisa old town center you will findan active market place the Town Hall and the Loviisa Church. Those houses survived the 1855 fire. Not maybe so many shops nor narrow street views, but walking from the market place to the harbour through this area is nice.
LysDor Says: Porvoo was born to be a trade center besidethe River Porvoo before Helsinki was founded. The King of Sweden, Magnus Eriksson, granted the town rights in 1346.The greatest man was however the Russian Czar, Alexander I, who granted Finland the autonoumus rights here at Porvoo...
LysDor Says: The Jewel of Porvoo is the Old Towndating from the medieval time. Walking here during the summertime or even winter is always fascinating.Beside these small wooden houses where people are actually living, there are many small shops and boutiques. The houses are not cheap to...
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When leaving Helsinki during the summer for a one day, what could be a better idea than to visit two old typical finnish coastal towns, Loviisa and Porvoo! Both towns are very well known for...
Loviisa is a small town to the east of Helsinki about one hour drive. It has nice nature and sea around and can be a nice place for an hour break if you visit the region.
I had a friend from Eastern Finland visiting me last week and we had already decided last year that we'd visit Porvoo together. When she came I suggested that we'd drive back to Lahti via Loviisa and...
The town was founded in 1745 as a fortified settlement on the Russian-Swedish frontier - Finland at that time being a part of Sweden. The new settlement was named after the queen of Sweden. During the...
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This is Loviisa. And me. And in the background, the bike that cost far too much money in Savonlinna. The expresson says it all. That and the fact I'd been riding since 9am with only one break.
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