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Alitalo
The shores of the lake in the area around Lohja are dotted with apple orchards. The tourist office has a booklet locating the orchards that produce their own apple and berry wines; one of the nicest is Alitalo, on Lohjansaari, which has a café and gentle farm animals for younger children.
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Lohja Museum
The Lohja Museum is a likeable little place with a collection of common household objects from different periods. Other buildings recreate a schoolhouse and a cowherd's cottage; there's also an impressive range of horse-drawn carriages, including an old-style hearse. Every summer there's a different special exhibition on an aspect of local history.
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Paikkarin Torppa
Twenty-three kilometres west of Lohja, and 5km north of the village of Sammatti, just off Rd 104, is Paikkarin Torppa. This pretty old wooden cottage was the birthplace of Elias Lönnrot, the compiler of the Kalevala . It has a large number of objects from his life, including his own kantele (Karelian stringed instrument). The setting - flowery meadows by a lake - is tempting picnic territory. There are many other sights on the Lönnrot 'trail' in this area.
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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.
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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.
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