Lohja Sights

Sights in Lohja

  1. Tytyri Mine Museum

    The Tytyri Mine Museum is an authentic limestone mine well worth visiting. An excellent descent into the bowels of the earth in a funicular takes you to the wide spaces below, where there are good information panels in English. Here, as elsewhere in Finland, new mine shafts were painted with tar to keep out devils. The deepest shaft measures 384m and is used to test elevators. The highlight of the visit is a short sound-and-light presentation looking into an awesomely large quarried cavern.

    It's cold in the mine, so take a jacket. The museum is 500m north of the town centre, past the tourist office.

    reviewed

    0 reviews | Write a review

    #1 of 6 sights in Lohja

    #52 of 1211 things to do in Finland

  2. Paikkari Cottage

    Twenty-three kilometres west of Lohja, and 5km north of the village of Sammatti, just off Rd 104, is Paikkari Cottage, the birthplace of Elias Lönnrot, compiler of the Kalevala. It’s an endearing cottage set amid summer-flowering meadows that would have motivated Lönnrot’s Arcadian vision but today inspire picnics. Inside there’s a small museum to the man that includes his kantele (Karelian stringed instrument).

    reviewed

    0 reviews | Write a review

    #2 of 6 sights in Lohja

    #121 of 1211 things to do in Finland

  3. Pyhän Laurin Kirkko

    Lohja's church, Pyhän Laurin Kirkko is in the heart of town. It has a great wooden belltower and some of the finest murals (not strictly frescoes) in the region. Rustic and charming in style, they sequentially depict stories from both Testaments and date from the early 16th century.

    reviewed

    0 reviews | Write a review

    #3 of 6 sights in Lohja

    #50 of 179 things to do in South Coast

  4. Lohja Museum

    Lohja Museum recreates a schoolhouse, and a cowherd’s cottage with an impressive range of horse-drawn carriages, including an old-style hearse. The main building is a former vicarage for the nearby church, and it has innovative special exhibitions in summer.

    reviewed

    0 reviews | Write a review

    #4 of 6 sights in Lohja

    #53 of 179 things to do in South Coast

  5. Pyhän Laurin Kirkko

    Lohja’s church, Pyhän Laurin Kirkko has a great wooden belltower and is renowned for its medieval murals. Rustic and naive in style, they depicted stories from both Testaments for the illiterate population of the early 16th century.

    reviewed

    0 reviews | Write a review

    #5 of 6 sights in Lohja

    #67 of 179 things to do in South Coast

  7. Alitalo

    One of the largest apple orchards around the lake is Alitalo, on Lohjansaari, which has a cafe and gentle farm animals for younger children.

    reviewed

    0 reviews | Write a review

    #6 of 6 sights in Lohja

    #827 of 1211 things to do in Finland