Bronze Age Burial Site of Sammallahdenmäki | Finland

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This is not your ordinary pile of rocks. It is actually a burial site dating back to the Bronze age.

Situated on the Gulf of Bothnia, the Bronze Age Burial Site of Sammallahdenmäki forms the largest, most varied and complete burial site from the Scandinavian Bronze Age, 1500-500 B.C.

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Matching stamp! 

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Suomenlinna Fortress | Finland

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Suomenlinna is a sea fortress built on six islands at the entrance of Helsinki’s harbor. The fortress is an interesting example of European military architecture of the time. It has served to defend three different sovereign states over the years: the Kingdom of Sweden, the Russian Empire and most recently the Republic of Finland (after gaining its independence in 1917).  

 

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A special Soumenlinna postmark! The name of the fortress under Swedish rule was Sveaborg. The Finnish name until 1918 was Viapori.  

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Struve Geodetic Arc | Finland

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The Struve Geodetic Arc is a chain of survey triangulations stretching from Hammerfest in Norway to the Black Sea, through ten countries and over 2,820 km. 

This helped to calculate the exact size and shape of the planet and marked an important step in the development of earth sciences and topographic mapping. Aavasaksa is one of the six measuring points that are located in Finland.

 

The Struve is on the list of UNESCO World Heritage sites since 2005.

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Werla paper mill | Finland

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The Verla groundwood and board mill is a unique, small-scale industrial complex from the early years of the Finnish wood processing industry. Within its rural setting, the area includes mills, power plants and workers’ housing. Only a handful of such settlements survive to the present day.

The first groundwood mill at Verla was founded in 1872 but was destroyed by fire in 1876. A larger mill, founded in 1882, continued to operate until 1964.

Verla is a UNESCO World Heritage site. (Not sure why the postcard shows Werla, with a “ W”)

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Finland’s gateway to the world: hanseatic city of Turku

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Turku is Finland’s oldest city, centrally located at the crossroads of the Baltic Sea. The city served as Finland’s gateway to the world since the Hanseatic times.

 

The Hanseatic League dominated commercial activity in the Baltic Sea in the Middle Ages. The League was founded by north German towns and German merchant communities abroad to protect their mutual trading interests.

In the 14th century the main trade route from Finland to the Hanseatic towns in North Germany went via Tallinn. Traders from Turku sailed to Tallinn where they could do business with Hanseatic merchants travelling east and west.

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Northern Lights in Lapland, Finland

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Aurora Borealis or the Northern Lights is a light display in the sky, particularly in the Arctic and Antarctic regions. This natural phenomenon paints the night sky with unearthly, surreal (green) color.

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In May 2013 Finland issued two (self-adhesive) Europa stamps, themed "The postman van". 

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Tuomiokirkko | The Cathedral from Helsinki, Finland

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The Lutheran Cathedral was built in 1830-1852 to replace an earlier church from 1727. The church is Greek cruciform in shape. There are statues of the Apostles made of zinc on the roof, and they are the biggest unique set of zinc sculptures in the world.

The church was called St. Nicholas church until the independence of Finland in 1917. Since 1959, it became a Cathedral, and is called Helsinki Cathedral or the Lutheran Cathedral.

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An odd-shaped € 0,05 and Christmas stamp 2011

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Savonlinna (Castle of Savonia)

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Could not much about this postcard. I thinks it’s a hotel from the 60’s situated in the city of Savonlinna in South East Finland.

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(left) Myosotis scorpioide: a True Forget-me-not.

(right) From a series of mailboxes on stamps (2011).

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Suomi - Finland - Lappi - Lapland - Poro - ren - Renntier - Reindeer - The Lapps - Die Samen

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Finnish Lapland (Finnish: Lappi) is the Arctic far north of Finland.

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Listening to Silence by Juhani Linnovaara (1955, Emma). He is one of the most internationally renowned Finnish artists and has been at the forefront of modern art in Finland since the 1960s.

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Suomi | Finland

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A lake view.

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Aurora Borealis or northern lights

The effect is named after the Roman goddess of dawn, Aurora, and the Greek name for the north wind, Boreas.

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Pargas is a town in south-western Finland.

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It’s one from  the series “ summer in moominland” . They are the central characters in a series of books and a comic strip by Swedish-Finn illustrator and writer Tove Jansson.

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Helsinki, Finland

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(upper left) The Helsinki Cathedral is an Evangelical Lutheran cathedral, located in the centre of Helsinki, Finland. The church was built as a tribute to the Grand Duke, Nicholas I, the Tsar of Russia.

(upper right) The Helsinki Winter Garden has been a recreational meeting place for the residents of Helsinki for over a century.

(bottom left)  Uspenski Cathedral is an Eastern Orthodox cathedral in Helsinki.

(bottom right) Suomenlinna is an inhabited sea fortress built on six islands, and which now forms part of the city of Helsinki. On the WHL.

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From the series  “ jump of joy”  containing 5 stamps.

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Sunset from Finland

Nice sunset from a Finnish postcrosser. Take a closer look at the stamp, its odd shaped and Im not sure what it shows.

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