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Laivasilta Marina
In summer most of the action is at Laivasilta Marina 500m southeast of the centre. A cluster of old rust-coloured wooden storehouses now contains galleries, craft shops, cafés and a small maritime museum. Boats to Svartholma Sea Fortress depart from this marina.
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Loviisa Church
On the market square, the impressive red-brick neo-Gothic Loviisa Church, built in 1865, is a dominant feature; guides are on hand in summer to give free tours. It was designed by Georg Theodor Chiewitz, who also designed many of the civic buildings in the wake of the blaze.
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Loviisa Town Museum
Loviisa Town Museum is in an old manor house about 200m north of the market square. There are three floors of recently renovated historical exhibits, with details of Loviisa's metalwork industry, as well as period furniture and costumes, and changing local art exhibitions. There's also an exhibition on Jean Sibelius, who used to spend his summers at Sibeliuksenkatu 10.
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Narrow Streets
Don't expect another Porvoo, but the Narrow Streets around Degerby Gille restaurant are the quaintest in town, and the restaurant itself is in a building that predates the town (1662).
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Old Town
The very small Old Town of Loviisa, just south of Mannerheiminkatu, is what's left of the wooden buildings following the disastrous fire of 1855.
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