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The building of Olavinlinna, castle of St. Olaf, began in 1475. The Danish-born founder of the castle, knight Erik Axelsson Tott, decided that a powerful fortification should be build to protect the strategically important Savo region. The castle......

The Tampere City Hall is a neo-renaissance building in Tampere, Finland, situated at the edge of the Tampere Central Square. The current city hall was built in 1890 and was designed by Georg Schreck. The palacial building has many......

Finlayson Church, designed by F.L. Calonius, was built in 1878-79, in the style of an English congressional church with no bell tower. The organ was made in London in the 1850s. In recent years the church has been used as the Children's Cathedral,......

Alexander Church, built by Theodor Decker in 1880-1881, is one of the more beautiful churches in Tampere, and a fine example of the Neo-Gothic style, although there are also some elements of other architectural styles. During......

The Church of the Virgin Mary is the oldest orthodox church in Finland and is situated in Linnoitus, otherwise known as the Fortress of Lappeenranta. There was a wooden church on the site as far back as 1742, the present church was completed in......

Situated in the heart of Lappeenranta, Lappee Church is a double cruciform wooden church that was originally built in 1794. The current church was built by Juhana Salonen, from Savitaipale, although it has undergone restoration work over the......

St. Laurence's church is medieval stone church located in the parish of Helsinki. It was built in 1450's and it is the oldest building in the metropolitan area. The Church was consecrated in 1494 by Bishop of Turku, Maunu III Särkilahti....

The Arktikum tells a story about the people of the North. The Arktikum in Rovaniemi provides a unique insight into the way of life, culture and history of the North. It is a museum, science centre, conference house as well as an......

Hommanäs Gård is located by the sea in the south of Porvoo on the island Vessö. The island is well known for its nice potato crops, sand and lovely nature. The mansion is build in the 18th century and is filled with......

The present church in Rovaniemi was completed in 1950. It was designed by the architect Bertil Liljequist. The interior of the church is dominated by a huge fresco behind the altar. It's called the Source of Life and it was realised by......

The western skyline of the city of Turku is dominated by Michael's Church which was consecrated in 1905. It was designed by Professor Lars Sonck. When he won the competition for the church in 1894, Sonck was only a 23-year old architectural......

Turku Cathedral, located on Unikankare Hill,  is a national shrine.  The church is dedicated to the Virgin Mary and Finland's first bishop, St. Henrik and was inaugurated in 1300.   The monuments and hundreds of details......

The history of Turku Castle stretches back to the 1280s. The castle's heyday was in the mid 16th century, during the rule of John, Duke of Östergötland and Catherine Jagellon.  Among others, the Renaissance floor was built......

The Lappish War monument, unveiled in 1994, is situated in the yard of Juustola, a café that also sells cheese and souvenirs. German troops retreating from Oulu and the Jaeger Brigade, under the command of the Armoured Division and......

Turku Art Museum is housed in a striking National Romantic building built in 1904 specifically to be a museum. Originally the ground floor was home to the Turku Drawing School, while the Turku Art Society reserved the galleries on the upper for......

Architect Veikko Larkas designed the present church which is one of the most beautiful modern churches in Finland. It is the sixth church of Enontekiö and was built with help of American Lutherans and was consecrated in 1952. The organ is a......

Built in 1991, designed by Hannu Pyykkönen. A glass wall serves as the altarpiece. The sculpture of the crucifixion was created by Klaus von Matt. There is also a monument to the old wooden church in the village, and in the old cemetary there......

The chapel was designed by Paavo Joensalo and was completed in 1968. An expansion was planned by Esko Peittola and the building was consecrated as a church in 1990. It contains several 18th-century icons that were painted in the Valamo Monastery......

Designed by Jacob Rijf and completed in 1816. In the church yard there is a Civil War memorial, in the old cemetary there are memorials to the victims of the famine, the Second World War, and of boat accident on Lake Lentua that occured on......