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18.09.2020
Saynatsalon Kunnantalo, Jyvaskyla Säynätsalo Town Hall is a multifunctional building complex consisting of two main buildings organized around a central courtyard; U-shaped council chamber and town hall with administrative offices and a public library with apartments. The town hall was designed by Finnish...
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17.09.2020
War Memorial, Lappeenranta Monument at Soldier's Cemetery: Mourning and Faith in the Future, Väino Aaltonen, 1951. 1501 soldiers who died in 1939-1940 and 1941-44 are buried at Soldier's Cemetery in the heart of the city. The red granite monument of Väino Aaltonen has two sides. On one side...
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17.09.2020
Orthodox Church, Lappeenranta The Orthodox Church of Finland is an autonomous Eastern Archbishopric of Constantinople Patriarchate. The Church has the legal status of a national church. in the country, together with the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Finland. The Finnish Orthodox Church, rooted in medieval...
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16.09.2020
Lappeenranta Art Museum Founded in 1965, the Lappeenranta Art Museum originally occupied the same space as the Museum of Cultural History of South Karelia, on the northern tip of the Lappeenranta fortress. In the 1980s, the Art Museum moved to the present place in the barracks in the neoclassical style (built...
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15.09.2020
Mullusaari Family Park, Lappeenranta Mullusaari Family Park is a popular recreation and entertainment area in Lappeenranta near the center, on the shore of Lake Saimaa. At Mullusaari you can swim and visit the sauna, do sports, park, play beach volleyball on the first-class fields. In the green areas there is a place to...
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15.09.2020
Wolkoff House Museum, Lappeenranta Volkov House-Museum is located on Kauppakatu Street, in Lappeenranta's center, near the Town Hall. This merchant house is one of the oldest preserved wooden buildings in Lappeenranta. The house was built in stages between 1826 and 1905, the oldest part was built by merchant...
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14.09.2020
South Karelia Museum, Lappeenranta The Regional Museum of South Karelia, located in the Lappeenranta Fortress, is the central institution of the City Museums Department. The museum is housed in massive gray stone buildings of the former artillery warehouse, which was completed in the early 19th century. Founded in 1963...
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13.09.2020
St. Mary's Church of Lappee Church Lappeen-Maria - a Lutheran church in the center of Lappeenranta in the district of Quessus . It is a parish church of Lappeenranta, which belongs to the consortium of Lappeenranta parishes. The church was consecrated in June 1794. Church Lappe - the only one of 7-8...
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13.09.2020
Karelia Aviation Museum, Lappeenranta Museum of Aviation of Karelia ( Finnish : Karyalan Ilmailumuseo ) is Lappeenranta airport in Lappeenranta , Finland . The museum is run by Kaakkois-Suomen ilmailumuseoyhdistys ry . The museum is also known as the South East Finland Aviation Museum (Fin . Kaakkois-Suomen ilmailumuseo )....
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12.09.2020
The Cavalry Museum, Lappeenranta The Cavalry Museum is located in the oldest building in Lappeenranta, built in 1772 as a guardhouse in the southernmost part of the fortification. Turned into the Cavalry Museum in 1973, the building has been undergoing reconstruction over the past few years, during which it was...
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