Turku
Saturday 08/11/2007 6:58 PM (In the United Kingdom: 11:58 PM)
The day after we returned from Veteli, we headed south for a quick trip to Turku. Antti and Anja both went to university and met each other here, so they knew the major sights to see. We started with the Turku Cathedral, one of the most spectacular buildings I've seen:
OK, well that's just part of it. Here's a photo of the inside:
And looking the other way:
One of the ceilings there:
The cathedral also had all sorts of tombs and statues and stained glass to look at, like this piece:
Outside of the church is one of those 3D maps of Turku, like the one I saw in Cambridge (here, the big building is the cathedral):
An alley in Turku:
We visited the university and saw this statue, called The Genius:
And I snapped this photo of Anja in front of a painting of her Finnish language professor:
The last stop was the Turku Castle:
A closer look at some of the windows:
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