Cavalry Museum

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Lonely Planet review

The cavalry tradition is cherished in Lappeenranta - from the 1920s to the 1940s, cavalrymen in their red trousers and skeleton jackets were a common sight on town streets (there are still regular parades mounted in summer). The town's oldest building (erected 1772), a former guardhouse, houses the small Cavalry Museum , which exhibits portraits of commanders, uniforms, saddles and guns, as well as footage of cavalry charges, and scary-looking implements for treating wounded horses.