Things to do in Lohja
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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.
It's cold in the mine, so take a jacket. The museum is 500m north of the town centre, past the tourist office.
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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).
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Kaljaasi
This bar doesn't have an address, because it's on a floating platform way out in the middle of the lake and only reachable by boat! It's a stupendous spot to sit and drink . You can hire or charter boats in Lohja (ask the tourist office), or they'll pick you up from Virkkala, a village 7km southwest of town for a price.
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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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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.
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Kahvila Liisa
In a pretty yellow wooden building, this café has a little outdoor terrace where you can enjoy tasty karjalanpiirakka (rice-filled savoury pastry) and excellent quiche. In the same building is a shop, Tuulentupa, selling attractive handicrafts and souvenirs.
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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.
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Opus K
You can wet your whistle at Opus K, which is one of Finland’s best pubs, lined floor to ceiling with books and always with a new discovery from an obscure Finnish microbrewery.
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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.
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