What a great day - what a great old town - what beautiful sunshine :-)
all who still want a little longer spend time in Helsinki and are interested in typical Finnish wood architecture house and want to stay in such an atmosphere, should a half-day trip to Porvoo schedule!
I took this for the day first, and something was very gracious with me, I woke up and took the most beautiful sunshine outside true! What joy! The sun! And the early spring (at least in Germany, where I noticed that ... here everything is still pretty bare, no leaves on the trees, no flowers, no green areas, no clear lakes, all still covered in snow ...)!
morning at 10 clock am I by coach from Kamppi bus station (it was a new experience for me - in this underground catacombs, I was not yet on the road ... the bus station in the Kamppi shopping center is built almost like a flight with having different gates for different goals ... and you wait in a queue in front of the glass door until the bus arrives in front of the door is opened and one boarding can ;-)) went to Porvoo. The slightly over 50 km will be covered depending on the route in one hour. Leaving Helsinki (which is surprisingly very spacious!), Is nothing but snow-white and white landscape and frozen lakes. Now and then you discover separates the typical wooden houses hidden in the forest. Sometimes one finds gathered these scattered wooden houses next to each other (four houses) and they form a place ;-) On entering Porvoo expects to have a very nice and inviting setting. This impression is the exit at the bus station in Porvoo unfortunately confirmed. It looks just hold out the city standard. The map looks a bit sparse in Porvoo out, however, proves to be very helpful and manageable! First, (be) so I was looking for the Runeberg Museum. Johan Ludvig Runeberg was the most famous Finnish-Swedish national poet and lived much of his life in Porvoo in the house, where is now the museum. He wrote, "Ensign steel", which is about the Swedish-Russian war 1808/1809. It made him internationally famous. In addition, it comes from the still existing Finnish national anthem "Our Country". On his birthday (February 5) is the country flagged and there are celebrations in his honor. The Museum visit is advisable. Then I
made my way to the harbor and enjoyed the sun (of course not without strong wind and icy ...), the view and the typical Finnish wood buildings on a river. In the sight of the enjoyment I was, however, only really when I left the city center and on my way to the "Old Town" made. According to Marco Polo travel guide, the "timber house architecture is (...) - except in Rauma - nowhere else available in Finland as complete and beautiful as in the city from the 14th C. "I can only confirm! I made a long, long walk through the residential area loud wooden houses and could not get enough of me! A home more beautiful and more colorful than the other! And people living in it! Just great! Of course you should not miss a church! The famous and historic Cathedral in the center of town was in 2006 target of arson. This was the historic roof completely destroyed the interior part. This act provoked outrage in Finland.
Situated directly opposite the cathedral, a small but fine chocolate factory! It consists practically of two rooms: the room where the Schokolode is produced, which can also be viewed by the visitors, and the sales room, where seven people have practically square. The prices are of course "hand-made accordingly. But a visit is the cute little chocolate factory value, and a delicious hot chocolate for me was in there too ;-)
clock at 14.40, I took the bus back to Helsinki (the buses run very regularly, in many hours every 20 minutes !!!), was at 15.40 clock there and still had the rest of the day this and that! Who has come to the tastes and has the time should einrechnen a visit to Helsinki for half a day for Porvoo!
Here are some impressions of Porvoo:
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| Porvoo 21 March 2009 |
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