Finland Walks: Porvoo (Borgå). Picturesque small town, interesting history. Relaxing virtual walk.

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  • čas přidán 12. 06. 2024
  • Welcome to walk through this lovely and loved small town in southern Finland. Porvoo is the Finnish name, Borgå the Swedish name in this bi-lingual town. Natural sound, some guiding captions. #walkingtour #porvoo #lifeinfinland

Komentáře • 125

  • @marirusjimenez3889
    @marirusjimenez3889 Před rokem +8

    Fint landskap, Finlands förtrollande 🌿😍😍

  • @7windhills78
    @7windhills78 Před rokem +9

    What a beautiful town. Thanks for share

  • @thabitaboubetans1518
    @thabitaboubetans1518 Před 4 měsíci +1

    ❤❤❤❤❤ jag saknar Borgå so mycket 😢

    • @StockholmWalks
      @StockholmWalks  Před 4 měsíci

      Borgå är toppen! Här finns fler promenader från Borgå: czcams.com/play/PLquhEbgx-gHeZneY9UnesR9dbm9wfU1--.html&si=8ZcbLjo6ifR-IA73

  • @peldridge2627
    @peldridge2627 Před rokem +4

    So very beautiful! Thank you for taking us on this walk with you in such a historical village. And thank you for a little history about it, too, that makes it more impressive.

  • @deb5710
    @deb5710 Před rokem +2

    Such a beautiful place, and so quiet!

    • @StockholmWalks
      @StockholmWalks  Před rokem

      Yet this was a busy day! I have a truly quiet walk from there waiting to be published- morning walk where I didn’t see more than a couple of people

  • @naughtyalista
    @naughtyalista Před rokem +2

    Really very beautiful colourful houses...😍

  • @hungrbeard
    @hungrbeard Před rokem +2

    Amazing and beautiful video!

  • @jackjax532
    @jackjax532 Před rokem +2

    Hej! What a pretty area of the city. I really love the way those old homes and shops look too! Tack for the history as well. 💙💛

  • @_ellen_2792
    @_ellen_2792 Před rokem

    Beautiful tour…thanks for sharing…🌿””

  • @ceanothus_bluemoon
    @ceanothus_bluemoon Před rokem +2

    What a lovely place, full of colourful buildings and cobbled streets. This is just my 2nd Finnish walk after a very snowy one a week or so ago and I'm looking forward to discovering more! Thanks for a relaxed walk on a beautiful day.

    • @StockholmWalks
      @StockholmWalks  Před rokem +1

      Welcome! I’ve tried to make my CZcams “home page” easy to navigate, if you’re looking for particular walks (areas, towns, summer, snow etc) you should be able to find it there

    • @ceanothus_bluemoon
      @ceanothus_bluemoon Před rokem

      @@StockholmWalks Thanks! I've been subbed to your channel for a while now and really enjoy your content. Very relaxing, and don't we all need that!

  • @philthai99
    @philthai99 Před rokem +1

    Very nice video walk update in Finland.

  • @user-rk7pf7ss2o
    @user-rk7pf7ss2o Před rokem

    I'm happy when I watch this video. Thank you so much for this video.

  • @paris081159
    @paris081159 Před rokem +1

    Nice town. Thanks for walk🙂

  • @suscripcion75
    @suscripcion75 Před rokem

    I Enjoyed watching!! Thanks

  • @user-yd6sj3pe4j
    @user-yd6sj3pe4j Před 15 dny

    Always thought about to visit Finland & Iceland
    While I was in Norway & Sweden
    Again I thought about to visit those two nations but my time was inconvenience
    Then again Covid -19 began
    I am not lucky person to be in those two countries
    Finally I decided to visit my mother land ? Sri Lanka

  • @1978UmareChannel
    @1978UmareChannel Před 4 měsíci +1

    I would love to go there , thanks for sharing so precious videos.
    Sending greeting from Japan👘🌸

    • @StockholmWalks
      @StockholmWalks  Před 4 měsíci +1

      Greetings! And I would very much like to go to Japan!

  • @costiniucmircea
    @costiniucmircea Před rokem +1

    Very nice places, great video!

    • @StockholmWalks
      @StockholmWalks  Před rokem

      Yes, this is a cute town- glad you liked the walk!

  • @Montero424
    @Montero424 Před rokem

    Very cute city))))))))))) thanks)))

  • @user-rh5zw2mx2d
    @user-rh5zw2mx2d Před rokem +1

    Jag gillade verkligen videon ;; Tack

  • @josemessiasrosa8856
    @josemessiasrosa8856 Před rokem +1

    I have already visited Helsinki twice, I will definitely put this town on my list when I go to Finland again.

  • @marinabencek311
    @marinabencek311 Před rokem +1

    beautiful 👍

  • @ardiris2715
    @ardiris2715 Před rokem +3

    Thank you! Your videos are a lifeline for those of us in wheelchairs.
    (:

    • @StockholmWalks
      @StockholmWalks  Před rokem

      Thank you- That’s very good to hear! This is a particularly inaccessible town I’d say.

    • @ardiris2715
      @ardiris2715 Před rokem

      @@StockholmWalks
      Winters do that.
      (:

    • @StockholmWalks
      @StockholmWalks  Před rokem +1

      And cobblestone I imagine

  • @ingriddeckert3721
    @ingriddeckert3721 Před rokem +1

    It's a very beautiful town.

  • @alafenetre81
    @alafenetre81 Před rokem +1

    Another great place! I put it in my agenda for next year when I visit Scandinavia :-)

    • @StockholmWalks
      @StockholmWalks  Před rokem +1

      Yes, it’s a charming place! But wait for my rainy walk in the non- tourist parts before you finalize your plans 😉

  • @MrTimodon
    @MrTimodon Před rokem +1

    Ja gamla Borgå! Det lämnade man för 42 år sedan för bosätta sig i just Stockholm och sedan starta företag där som nu rullat på i 35 år snart!

    • @StockholmWalks
      @StockholmWalks  Před rokem +1

      Borgå & Stockholm kompletterar varandra rätt fint tycker jag!

  • @user-vb5ck9nh9b
    @user-vb5ck9nh9b Před rokem +1

    Очень любим Порвоо!

  • @andreypolyantsev
    @andreypolyantsev Před rokem +4

    Yes, Finland is a beautiful country and I live nearby in Karelia.Thanks for the walk

    • @StockholmWalks
      @StockholmWalks  Před rokem

      Oh! Karelia! A place I want to visit some day!

    • @andreypolyantsev
      @andreypolyantsev Před rokem

      @@StockholmWalks Välkomna

    • @tuttirulla
      @tuttirulla Před rokem

      @@StockholmWalks You should try Nurmes

    • @StockholmWalks
      @StockholmWalks  Před rokem

      @@tuttirulla oh, so many places I would love to go! If I get a chance I will!

  • @valderezasada7582
    @valderezasada7582 Před rokem +1

    I started to love Finland when l watched the Finnish series " The Black Widows Pact"🤗🇧🇷🧡

    • @StockholmWalks
      @StockholmWalks  Před rokem +1

      Oh, I haven’t heard of that. Good I suppose?

    • @valderezasada7582
      @valderezasada7582 Před rokem

      @@StockholmWalks I understand, but I've watched the series twice. Thanks for your reply, have a nice week 💋

  • @user-xt1ie3on1p
    @user-xt1ie3on1p Před rokem +1

    Благодарю за прогулку по прекрасному и уютному городку.

    • @StockholmWalks
      @StockholmWalks  Před rokem +2

      Glad you enjoyed it, I like this place

    • @bor.7413
      @bor.7413 Před rokem +1

      @@StockholmWalks You and every body in comments says ...Finland.. Finland...Finland. And nobody understands that this old part of the town has nothing to do with Finland....
      Why? This part of the Town has been. created 200 years by the order of the Russian Czar Alexander 1. And it only has to do with Finland because the Finnish citizens have carefully guarded this part of the town all this 200 yesrs. And what's the most important thing, you had to write in the comments to this video. What is important in this video is that people seem to be in a time machine and move 200 years ago.
      But, where did they move to? To what place. That is the most important question?
      And here is the answer:
      200 years ago Alexander 1 ordered to build a part of the town here, which has to be intended to be a capital of the country. And he ordered that this was the town to be an exact copy of St. Petersburg in Russia 200 years ago. Thus, you find yourself, as in a time machine, 200 years ago. You see St. Petersburg the way it used to be. Therefore, wherever you go along the road and see stone pavement, this is the place that has not been touched for 200 years.
      And the great merit of the Finns is that they carefully preserved all this beauty in its untouched original form in Porvoo. In St. Petersburg itself , now you cannot find a single such a place, they have not been preserved.... unfortunatly...
      And interestingly, it was in this town that Alexander had a mistress, to whom he built a house here and went to her here for 7 years. This house is also preserved.
      Thus, many tourists, knowing about all these facts, come to this old town with great interest to see the architecture of St. Petersburg and the architecture that was used at that time.💥👍🎩👏👏👏

    • @johnislander7956
      @johnislander7956 Před 4 měsíci

      @@bor.7413 Incorrect. The old town has existed long before Czar Alexander. The city was founded in the middle ages and the cathedral is medieval. The houses of the old town are built in the 1700 and 1800s. Many of them before 1809 when Finland became an autonomous grand duchy. The newer part of Porvoo was built in the 1840s in a style of similiar to St.Petersburg. I think you are confusing Porvoo with Helsinki which became capitol city in 1812 by order of the czar. And the center of Helsinki was to be modelled after St.Petersburg

  • @shcheah2002
    @shcheah2002 Před rokem +1

    Truly picturesque. Was not aware Finland used to be a part of Sweden until this video. Btw great 3D effect in this video. Perspective changes when I tilt my phone. Or is it just my eyes. 🤔

    • @StockholmWalks
      @StockholmWalks  Před rokem +1

      Glad you liked it! I’m not aware of using a 3d effect so it might be your screen… or eyes 😜

    • @torpmorp1324
      @torpmorp1324 Před 3 měsíci

      Well, it was a part of Sweden for about 700-800 years.

  • @yvonneimjack8201
    @yvonneimjack8201 Před rokem +1

    Gamla Stan I Borgå är en vacker plats för turiter att se på jag vet det för jag bor I Borgå☺️

    • @StockholmWalks
      @StockholmWalks  Před rokem

      Ja, jag är ofta i Borgå och tycker mycket om hela området

  • @jarikinnunen1718
    @jarikinnunen1718 Před rokem +1

    It was my "home town". That tourist trap area was irritating in tourist season, to go thru, if was no other way. Earlier decades tourism was more invisible and living with it easy. Once some tourist group looking for get to river while they climping uphill.

    • @StockholmWalks
      @StockholmWalks  Před rokem

      Kind of working / living in old town Stockholm I suppose

  • @sylvier9548
    @sylvier9548 Před rokem +1

    une belle vidéo🤎🤎🤍💯👍🐦🐥🕊🌻🌻🌹🌹🏵💮🌸💐

  • @vesaparkkonen4279
    @vesaparkkonen4279 Před rokem +1

    Hometown

  • @user-hz8xo5fs5j
    @user-hz8xo5fs5j Před rokem +1

    Città dove stato girato film russo-filandese"За спичками"Meravigliosa località.

    • @StockholmWalks
      @StockholmWalks  Před rokem

      Aha! I haven’t seen that one! The Bruce Willice movie the Jackal had some scenes from here as well

  • @sgt.pepper1956
    @sgt.pepper1956 Před rokem +1

    That yellow building at 5:28 mark just got burned down completely. In that building there is a restaurant called " Meat District".

    • @StockholmWalks
      @StockholmWalks  Před rokem

      What?! Really? An accident or what?

    • @StockholmWalks
      @StockholmWalks  Před rokem

      I’ve found news articles about it now. Thank you for telling me, Porvoo is close to my heart

  • @YaSin-su4kh
    @YaSin-su4kh Před rokem

    Stockholm Walks. Where is Stockholm City i miss it with it's colorful buiding and the Lovely architecture. Pls try to upload more of!

    • @StockholmWalks
      @StockholmWalks  Před rokem

      Well, I have uploaded about 700 videos from central Stockholm: check out my playlist section for the different city areas: CZcams.com/Stockholmwalks

    • @StockholmWalks
      @StockholmWalks  Před rokem

      Maybe this is the playlist for you: czcams.com/play/PLquhEbgx-gHdSxZZuVod7wURH6-CDWjkS.html

  • @svenskbibel
    @svenskbibel Před 10 měsíci +1

    Fint, men du skulle förstås ha gått in i den historiska Borgå Domkyrka också.

  • @uaintme6419
    @uaintme6419 Před rokem +2

    I live in Porvoo

  • @franbric5640
    @franbric5640 Před rokem +1

    I know how beautiful Porvoo is from your older videos, but I guess it's nothing wrong to say it again how charming this colourful old part of town is.From what I know, it's fairly easy for a Swede to understand Danish or Norwegian.Is it the same with Finnish?I don't like the sound of this language, but that's just me, the root of my problem is not in Scandinavia.

    • @StockholmWalks
      @StockholmWalks  Před rokem +1

      Porvoo is beautiful- to a large part. I made sure to also film the non- pretty part to balance things out… will be posted later. Finnish is from an entirely different language family, more related to Hungarian than Scandinavian languages. I never hear anyone describing it as beautiful, but I do like the look and sound of it

    • @franbric5640
      @franbric5640 Před rokem

      @@StockholmWalks You nailed the root of my "problem", Hungarian.The language which i first heard as a kid and for some reason never liked the sound of it.Only years later I learned that Finnish is from the same family, so I threw it in the same basket. Back then, before I first visited Hungary, ignorant teen as I was, my expectations were very low, based only on my pre-judgement.Needles to say that I was positively surprised and impressed with the beauty of Budapest, which reminded me on Vienna.Now, a "bit" older and less ignorant, still don't like to listen either Hungarian or Finnish.Weird and not nice to say, since every language has its beauty, but so it is.

    • @StockholmWalks
      @StockholmWalks  Před rokem +1

      Those first impressions stay with us! I never been to Budapest, but it looks like a place I would like

    • @franbric5640
      @franbric5640 Před rokem

      @@StockholmWalks Yes, they do stay.There are so many beautiful and interesting places to see, that we would need at least a couple of lifes to visit them.If you ever find time for Budapest you won't be disappointed.And just like Vienna, it lies on the same river, Danube.Or as Johann Strauss would say, an der schönen blauen Donau

  • @shirleyboy8859
    @shirleyboy8859 Před rokem

    Moi Moi SW...... I used to have a Finish Girlfriend so I have been there a few times.... I really do like Scandinavia..... You seam to be a little more laid back.... There is a lot of Beautiful countryside and architecture...... I could relate to the Finish as they also like a drink or two.. ... I am enjoying all your videos SW, they bring back some wonderful memories.... Take care My Dear Lady, but make sure you enjoy life....It looks like you are :-)))) xxxxxxxxx

    • @StockholmWalks
      @StockholmWalks  Před rokem +1

      Moi! Level of laid backness varies greatly I’d say (Östermalm vs Countryside). And I’m good at enjoying life!

    • @shirleyboy8859
      @shirleyboy8859 Před rokem

      @@StockholmWalks Good to hear ...... Heatwave over in Yorkshire now.... 20c and rain!!!! Welcome to a UK Summer... :-))) xxxxx

    • @shirleyboy8859
      @shirleyboy8859 Před rokem

      @@StockholmWalks Wonderful Helsinki video SW..... Did you get to see the Giant Moose Statue?? :-))) xxx

    • @StockholmWalks
      @StockholmWalks  Před rokem +1

      I don’t remember ever seeing a gigant moose in Helsinki?! Where is that?

    • @shirleyboy8859
      @shirleyboy8859 Před rokem

      @@StockholmWalks It is about 3 mtr`s tall it used to be outside (a council building I think) in a big square....... I will have to goggle it.... :-)) xxx I will be back....

  • @Kerppu68
    @Kerppu68 Před rokem +1

    There are over 300 municipalities in Finland, more than 100 of them are towns/cities. Finland is a bilingual country for sure. However only some 30 municipalities are bilingual so Finnish/Swedish street names are not that common at all.

    • @StockholmWalks
      @StockholmWalks  Před rokem +1

      Yes, thank you for pointing this out. I did learn that going to Hamina just after editing this one… I’ve always known there are plenty of places that is all Finnish speaking, but I thought the signs were always in two languages- my mistake!

    • @Kerppu68
      @Kerppu68 Před rokem

      @@StockholmWalks Interesting - Hamina being my home town...

    • @StockholmWalks
      @StockholmWalks  Před rokem +1

      Aha- Walk Will be coming! You can tell me what goodies I didn’t catch!

  • @VbSuro
    @VbSuro Před 9 měsíci

    Дома постройки времен Российской империи очень красивые! Вы молодцы, что следите за ними.

    • @StockholmWalks
      @StockholmWalks  Před 9 měsíci +2

      They are. But most of these old wooden houses of Porvoo are from late 1700’, when it was a Swedish city. Some from the Russian period too of course.

    • @VbSuro
      @VbSuro Před 9 měsíci

      @@StockholmWalks Спасибо за информацию!

  • @cicerolima7410
    @cicerolima7410 Před rokem +1

    A Finlândia como chamamos aqui no Brasil, ficou conhecida aqui por causa do piloto Mika Hakknen, conhecido por sua extrema calma ao pilotar nas piores consições de corrida. A midia esportiva aqui o chama de "O homem de gelo".

    • @StockholmWalks
      @StockholmWalks  Před rokem

      Aha really? How fun! I don’t know anything about racing, but I know it’s very big in Finland, and the name Häkkinen is big in Finland off course!

  • @avruvimtu2204
    @avruvimtu2204 Před rokem

    Too sunny.

  • @kuvgang4121
    @kuvgang4121 Před 10 měsíci

    Finland has hard language no?????

    • @StockholmWalks
      @StockholmWalks  Před 10 měsíci

      I’m not sure what you mean by hard?

    • @kuvgang4121
      @kuvgang4121 Před 10 měsíci

      @@StockholmWalks i wanna to say Finnish for many languages is hard if wanna to learn. I'm very trying to learn Finnish with doulingo but I couldn't. (As a iranian). Now I'm learning Espanol (española) with doulingo it's soooooooooooooooooooo easy

  • @lildenis8281
    @lildenis8281 Před měsícem

    stay out of p-town, these are my hoods

  • @bor.7413
    @bor.7413 Před rokem +2

    Every body in comments says ...Finland.. Finland...Finland. And nobody understands that this old part of the town has nothing to do with Finland....
    Why? This part of the Town has been. created 200 years by the order of the Russian Czar Alexander 1. And it only has to do with Finland because the Finnish citizens have carefully guarded this part of the town all this 200 yesrs. And what's the most important thing, you had to write in the comments to this video. What is important in this video is that people seem to be in a time machine and move 200 years ago.
    But, where did they move to? To what place. That is the most important question?
    And here is the answer:
    200 years ago Alexander 1 ordered to build a part of the town here, which has to be intended to be a capital of the country. And he ordered that this was the town to be an exact copy of St. Petersburg in Russia 200 years ago. Thus, you find yourself, as in a time machine, 200 years ago. You see St. Petersburg the way it used to be. Therefore, wherever you go along the road and see stone pavement, this is the place that has not been touched for 200 years.
    And the great merit of the Finns is that they carefully preserved all this beauty in its untouched original form in Porvoo. In St. Petersburg itself , now you cannot find a single such a place, they have not been preserved.... unfortunatly...
    And interestingly, it was in this town that Alexander had a mistress, to whom he built a house here and went to her here for 7 years. This house is also preserved.
    Thus, many tourists, knowing about all these facts, come to this old town with great interest to see the architecture of St. Petersburg and the architecture that was used at that time.💥👍🎩👏👏👏

    • @StockholmWalks
      @StockholmWalks  Před rokem +3

      Thank you for interesting details! I do think it has quite a lot to do with Finland: both the buildings and structures that was there before the Russian era and the ones built by Alexander’s orders. I’ve never heard it was meant to be a copy of st Petersburg? Heavily influenced absolutely. Carl Ludvig Engel had studied the empire style in St. Petersburg before starting to build in the 1840’s is what the sources I find say. Very interesting nevertheless

    • @stupidtookmynick
      @stupidtookmynick Před rokem +4

      @@StockholmWalks this city was built waaaaaaaaay before Russia. The old town that you walked through is the swedish era buildings, the ones on the other side of the town that you didn't walk through was the russian era. The city got it's city rights 1347 or c. 1380. It's original name is even Borgå, which is swedish for Fortress River, named for the fortress that used to stand on the hill, that's now completely gone (only the moats are left).

    • @robinlindholm1525
      @robinlindholm1525 Před měsícem

      @@StockholmWalksI think what he means that the senate square in Helsinki is inspired by St. Petersburg. Porvoo isn’t, it’s obviously that the architecture in Porvoo is typical old nordic architecture. Also Alexander I did not have the power to make decisions over Finland as Finland had autonomy.

    • @robinlindholm1525
      @robinlindholm1525 Před měsícem

      @@StockholmWalksalso senate’s square is the only area with russian influence in Helsinki, sure maybe some single buildings here and there but the architecture in Helsinki and other cities is definitely in nordic style and not russian.