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Porvoo Cathedral, Finland - 14th June 2009

By: Delenna

I wanted to see the Cathedral so there we went. The church is dedicated to Mary, the Mother of Jesus, and it gained its present form at the end of the 15th century. It can accomodate 800 people at the time. The small chuch (red wooden building right next to the cathedral) is dedicated in 1740. It accomodates 170 people. My host got married in the small one - and they christened their first born there too.

The Cathedral has been burnt several times. Last time it was burnt by arson in 2006. It took them 3 years to rebuild the roof and wash the interiors.

The pink'ish house in the 3rd & 2nd last photos is the Poet's House. The city rents it for free to artists of various kinds. The artist who wins the rent gets to live there and do his/her art for a certain amount of years.

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