So very beautiful! Thank you for taking us on this walk with you in such a historical village. And thank you for a little history about it, too, that makes it more impressive.
What a lovely place, full of colourful buildings and cobbled streets. This is just my 2nd Finnish walk after a very snowy one a week or so ago and I'm looking forward to discovering more! Thanks for a relaxed walk on a beautiful day.
Welcome! I’ve tried to make my RU-vid “home page” easy to navigate, if you’re looking for particular walks (areas, towns, summer, snow etc) you should be able to find it there
@@StockholmWalks You and every body in comments says ...Finland.. Finland...Finland. And nobody understands that this old part of the town has nothing to do with Finland.... Why? This part of the Town has been. created 200 years by the order of the Russian Czar Alexander 1. And it only has to do with Finland because the Finnish citizens have carefully guarded this part of the town all this 200 yesrs. And what's the most important thing, you had to write in the comments to this video. What is important in this video is that people seem to be in a time machine and move 200 years ago. But, where did they move to? To what place. That is the most important question? And here is the answer: 200 years ago Alexander 1 ordered to build a part of the town here, which has to be intended to be a capital of the country. And he ordered that this was the town to be an exact copy of St. Petersburg in Russia 200 years ago. Thus, you find yourself, as in a time machine, 200 years ago. You see St. Petersburg the way it used to be. Therefore, wherever you go along the road and see stone pavement, this is the place that has not been touched for 200 years. And the great merit of the Finns is that they carefully preserved all this beauty in its untouched original form in Porvoo. In St. Petersburg itself , now you cannot find a single such a place, they have not been preserved.... unfortunatly... And interestingly, it was in this town that Alexander had a mistress, to whom he built a house here and went to her here for 7 years. This house is also preserved. Thus, many tourists, knowing about all these facts, come to this old town with great interest to see the architecture of St. Petersburg and the architecture that was used at that time.💥👍🎩👏👏👏
@@bor.7412 Incorrect. The old town has existed long before Czar Alexander. The city was founded in the middle ages and the cathedral is medieval. The houses of the old town are built in the 1700 and 1800s. Many of them before 1809 when Finland became an autonomous grand duchy. The newer part of Porvoo was built in the 1840s in a style of similiar to St.Petersburg. I think you are confusing Porvoo with Helsinki which became capitol city in 1812 by order of the czar. And the center of Helsinki was to be modelled after St.Petersburg
Truly picturesque. Was not aware Finland used to be a part of Sweden until this video. Btw great 3D effect in this video. Perspective changes when I tilt my phone. Or is it just my eyes. 🤔
It was my "home town". That tourist trap area was irritating in tourist season, to go thru, if was no other way. Earlier decades tourism was more invisible and living with it easy. Once some tourist group looking for get to river while they climping uphill.
Always thought about to visit Finland & Iceland While I was in Norway & Sweden Again I thought about to visit those two nations but my time was inconvenience Then again Covid -19 began I am not lucky person to be in those two countries Finally I decided to visit my mother land ? Sri Lanka
I know how beautiful Porvoo is from your older videos, but I guess it's nothing wrong to say it again how charming this colourful old part of town is.From what I know, it's fairly easy for a Swede to understand Danish or Norwegian.Is it the same with Finnish?I don't like the sound of this language, but that's just me, the root of my problem is not in Scandinavia.
Porvoo is beautiful- to a large part. I made sure to also film the non- pretty part to balance things out… will be posted later. Finnish is from an entirely different language family, more related to Hungarian than Scandinavian languages. I never hear anyone describing it as beautiful, but I do like the look and sound of it
@@StockholmWalks You nailed the root of my "problem", Hungarian.The language which i first heard as a kid and for some reason never liked the sound of it.Only years later I learned that Finnish is from the same family, so I threw it in the same basket. Back then, before I first visited Hungary, ignorant teen as I was, my expectations were very low, based only on my pre-judgement.Needles to say that I was positively surprised and impressed with the beauty of Budapest, which reminded me on Vienna.Now, a "bit" older and less ignorant, still don't like to listen either Hungarian or Finnish.Weird and not nice to say, since every language has its beauty, but so it is.
@@StockholmWalks Yes, they do stay.There are so many beautiful and interesting places to see, that we would need at least a couple of lifes to visit them.If you ever find time for Budapest you won't be disappointed.And just like Vienna, it lies on the same river, Danube.Or as Johann Strauss would say, an der schönen blauen Donau
There are over 300 municipalities in Finland, more than 100 of them are towns/cities. Finland is a bilingual country for sure. However only some 30 municipalities are bilingual so Finnish/Swedish street names are not that common at all.
Yes, thank you for pointing this out. I did learn that going to Hamina just after editing this one… I’ve always known there are plenty of places that is all Finnish speaking, but I thought the signs were always in two languages- my mistake!
Moi Moi SW...... I used to have a Finish Girlfriend so I have been there a few times.... I really do like Scandinavia..... You seam to be a little more laid back.... There is a lot of Beautiful countryside and architecture...... I could relate to the Finish as they also like a drink or two.. ... I am enjoying all your videos SW, they bring back some wonderful memories.... Take care My Dear Lady, but make sure you enjoy life....It looks like you are :-)))) xxxxxxxxx
@@StockholmWalks It is about 3 mtr`s tall it used to be outside (a council building I think) in a big square....... I will have to goggle it.... :-)) xxx I will be back....
A Finlândia como chamamos aqui no Brasil, ficou conhecida aqui por causa do piloto Mika Hakknen, conhecido por sua extrema calma ao pilotar nas piores consições de corrida. A midia esportiva aqui o chama de "O homem de gelo".
@@StockholmWalks i wanna to say Finnish for many languages is hard if wanna to learn. I'm very trying to learn Finnish with doulingo but I couldn't. (As a iranian). Now I'm learning Espanol (española) with doulingo it's soooooooooooooooooooo easy
Every body in comments says ...Finland.. Finland...Finland. And nobody understands that this old part of the town has nothing to do with Finland.... Why? This part of the Town has been. created 200 years by the order of the Russian Czar Alexander 1. And it only has to do with Finland because the Finnish citizens have carefully guarded this part of the town all this 200 yesrs. And what's the most important thing, you had to write in the comments to this video. What is important in this video is that people seem to be in a time machine and move 200 years ago. But, where did they move to? To what place. That is the most important question? And here is the answer: 200 years ago Alexander 1 ordered to build a part of the town here, which has to be intended to be a capital of the country. And he ordered that this was the town to be an exact copy of St. Petersburg in Russia 200 years ago. Thus, you find yourself, as in a time machine, 200 years ago. You see St. Petersburg the way it used to be. Therefore, wherever you go along the road and see stone pavement, this is the place that has not been touched for 200 years. And the great merit of the Finns is that they carefully preserved all this beauty in its untouched original form in Porvoo. In St. Petersburg itself , now you cannot find a single such a place, they have not been preserved.... unfortunatly... And interestingly, it was in this town that Alexander had a mistress, to whom he built a house here and went to her here for 7 years. This house is also preserved. Thus, many tourists, knowing about all these facts, come to this old town with great interest to see the architecture of St. Petersburg and the architecture that was used at that time.💥👍🎩👏👏👏
Thank you for interesting details! I do think it has quite a lot to do with Finland: both the buildings and structures that was there before the Russian era and the ones built by Alexander’s orders. I’ve never heard it was meant to be a copy of st Petersburg? Heavily influenced absolutely. Carl Ludvig Engel had studied the empire style in St. Petersburg before starting to build in the 1840’s is what the sources I find say. Very interesting nevertheless
@@StockholmWalks this city was built waaaaaaaaay before Russia. The old town that you walked through is the swedish era buildings, the ones on the other side of the town that you didn't walk through was the russian era. The city got it's city rights 1347 or c. 1380. It's original name is even Borgå, which is swedish for Fortress River, named for the fortress that used to stand on the hill, that's now completely gone (only the moats are left).
@@StockholmWalksI think what he means that the senate square in Helsinki is inspired by St. Petersburg. Porvoo isn’t, it’s obviously that the architecture in Porvoo is typical old nordic architecture. Also Alexander I did not have the power to make decisions over Finland as Finland had autonomy.
@@StockholmWalksalso senate’s square is the only area with russian influence in Helsinki, sure maybe some single buildings here and there but the architecture in Helsinki and other cities is definitely in nordic style and not russian.
