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Extract from the Porvoo Travel Guides:
One of the oldest towns on the south coast,
PORVOO
, 50km east of Helsinki, with its narrow cobbled streets lined by small wooden buildings, gives a sense of the Finnish life which predated the capital's bold squares and Neoclassical geometry - although its elegant riverside setting and unhurried mood mean it's inevitably popular with tourists.
Close to the station, visit the preserved
Johan Ludwig Runeberg House
, Aleksanterinkatu 3 (May-Aug Mon-Sat 10am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; Sept-April closed Mon & Tues; ?4), where the famed Finnish poet lived from 1852 while a teacher at the town school. Despite...
read the whole Porvoo Travel Guides...
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