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Showing posts with label FINLAND. Show all posts
Showing posts with label FINLAND. Show all posts
March 23, 2020

3462 FINLAND (North Karelia) - Bomban Orthodox prayer chapel in Nurmes

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3462 Bomban Orthodox prayer chapel in Nurmes Between 1977 and 1978, on the shore of lake Pielinen , about three kilometers from the...
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December 22, 2019

2026, 3297 FINLAND - The land of the thousand lakes

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3297 Posted on 11.11.2015, 22.12.2019 Much of the geography of Finland is explained by the Ice Age. The glaciers were thicker a...
September 2, 2017

3141 FINLAND (Uusimaa) - Kiasma

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Kiasma is a contemporary art museum located on Mannerheimintie in Helsinki and opened to the public in 1998. The museum exhibits the...
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April 28, 2017

3028 FINLAND - The gates of a barn

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Obviously this is the front of a barn. What else would be to said? I searched for information about Finnish barns, based on the ide...
March 9, 2017

1014, 1117, 2976 FINLAND / NORWAY - Sami people

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1014 Finland - A young Sami man Posted on 25.02.2014, 26.06.2014, 09.03.2017 The Sami people are the indigenous Finno-Ugric people...
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November 22, 2016

2876 FINLAND (Pirkanmaa) - Santa Claus over the Vapriikki Museum Centre

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As it is well known, the home of Santa Claus is in Finland , in Korvatunturi , as also Santa Claus Village and  Santa Park , located ...
November 6, 2016

2854 FINLAND (Pirkanmaa) - Tampere Cathedral

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Designed in the National Romantic style by Lars Sonck , Tampere Cathedral was built between 1902 and 1907. In the beginning of the 20...
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June 21, 2016

2631 FINLAND (Uusimaa) - Motorcyclists on the Linvävaregatan in Tammisaari

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Tammisaari (Ekenäs in Swedish) is a coastal town and former municipality in Southern Finland , that included the former municipalities...
February 15, 2016

2296 FINLAND (Uusimaa) - Bengtskär lighthouse

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Located in the Archipelago Sea (a part of the Baltic Sea between the Gulf of Bothnia , the Gulf of Finland and the Sea of Åland ), o...
February 10, 2016

0075, 0091, 2281 FINLAND (Uusimaa) - The trams of Helsinki

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2281 Tram HKL 184 on line 9, in Helsinki Senate Square, on 20.04.1972 Posted on 16.12.2011, 04.01.2012, 10.02.2016 The Helsinki ...
December 22, 2015

2072, 2139 FINLAND (Åland) - The Maritime Quarter of Mariehamn Eastern Harbour

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2072 The Maritime Quarter of Mariehamn Eastern Harbour (1) Posted on 26.11.2015, 22.12.2015 Mariehamn , the capital of Åland , is lo...
November 30, 2015

2088 FINLAND (Lapland) - Map of Lapland

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Sápmi (English: Lapland) is the cultural region traditionally inhabited by the Sami people (English: Lapps), located in Northern Euro...
February 8, 2015

1447 FINLAND (Åland) - The flag of the Åland Islands

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The Åland Islands (Finnish: Ahvenanmaa) is an autonomous region of  Finland that consists of an archipelago lying at the entrance to ...
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December 22, 2014

1372 FINLAND (Åland) - Hammarudda, in Jomala

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Located on  Fasta Åland , the main island of Åland , lying at the entrance to the Gulf of Bothnia in the Baltic Sea , Jomala is a mun...
October 1, 2014

0010, 1190, 1260 FINLAND - The map and the flag of the country

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Posted on 13.10.2011, 17.08.2014, and 01.10.2014 Bordered by Sweden , Norway , and Russia , Finland has a population of ...
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May 20, 2014

1083 FINLAND (Northern Ostrobothnia) - Wooden Church in Vihanti

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Located in the centre of Finland, Vihanti is a little town, which has only 3000 inhabitants, even after the assimilation of the neighb...
May 4, 2014

1075 FINLAND (Uusimaa) - A Finnish folk dance group in Glims Farmstead Museum in Espoo

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As in many of the european countries, the Finnish national costumes are based on the outfits of common people in the end of the 17th an...