Hamina Old Town

Small boring city, don’t bother coming here waits are to long and not much to see

Avoid this port. Our ship told us we were going to kotka and dumped us here instead. 1 hour line for mandatory shuttle in 1 hour back and almost nothing to do in this town maybe 2 hours max. Worst of ...

Like Walking Through A Tolstoy Novel

We were staying with our daughter and partner in Hamina, who have been there since the beginning of the year, living in an apartment within the old town, in sight of the cathedral - really in the cent...

Circular town plan from the 18th century and wooden buildings from the 19th century

Hamina is the city opposites. A large Google Data Center is situated there but the town itself was founded in 1653. It got the new name in 1723 and it got a circular town plan. Serious fires have disa...

Nice old wooden town center

Compact but beautiful center, with a special circular arrangement. Also the military buildings, embankments and statues are a nice hour or so walk.

Well preserved wooden house old town

This is one of the rare well preserved old town which is built of wooden houses. There are only few towns which do have so well perserved old towns of wooden houses in Finland