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
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@7windhills782 жыл бұрын
What a beautiful town. Thanks for share
@StockholmWalks2 жыл бұрын
Yes, I like it a lot
@marirusjimenez38892 жыл бұрын
Fint landskap, Finlands förtrollande 🌿😍😍
@StockholmWalks2 жыл бұрын
Ja, det finns mycket fint i Finland
@peldridge2627 Жыл бұрын
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.
@StockholmWalks Жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it!
@hungrbeard2 жыл бұрын
Amazing and beautiful video!
@StockholmWalks2 жыл бұрын
🙏💙
@deb5710 Жыл бұрын
Such a beautiful place, and so quiet!
@StockholmWalks Жыл бұрын
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
@jackjax5322 жыл бұрын
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. 💙💛
@StockholmWalks2 жыл бұрын
🙏💙
@user-rk7pf7ss2o Жыл бұрын
I'm happy when I watch this video. Thank you so much for this video.
@StockholmWalks Жыл бұрын
It is a nice place to walk- glad you liked it!
@naughtyalista2 жыл бұрын
Really very beautiful colourful houses...😍
@StockholmWalks2 жыл бұрын
Yes, they’re very cute!
@suscripcion752 жыл бұрын
I Enjoyed watching!! Thanks
@StockholmWalks2 жыл бұрын
Glad you liked it!
@paris0811592 жыл бұрын
Nice town. Thanks for walk🙂
@StockholmWalks2 жыл бұрын
Yes, I like this town, glad you did too
@_ellen_27922 жыл бұрын
Beautiful tour…thanks for sharing…🌿””
@StockholmWalks2 жыл бұрын
Glad you liked it!
@ceanothus_bluemoon2 жыл бұрын
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.
@StockholmWalks2 жыл бұрын
Welcome! I’ve tried to make my KZbin “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_bluemoon2 жыл бұрын
@@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!
@costiniucmircea2 жыл бұрын
Very nice places, great video!
@StockholmWalks2 жыл бұрын
Yes, this is a cute town- glad you liked the walk!
@1978UmareChannel6 ай бұрын
I would love to go there , thanks for sharing so precious videos. Sending greeting from Japan👘🌸
@StockholmWalks6 ай бұрын
Greetings! And I would very much like to go to Japan!
@philthai992 жыл бұрын
Very nice video walk update in Finland.
@StockholmWalks2 жыл бұрын
There Will be more from Finland for a while
@user-rh5zw2mx2d2 жыл бұрын
Jag gillade verkligen videon ;; Tack
@StockholmWalks2 жыл бұрын
Vad roligt, tack!
@Montero424 Жыл бұрын
Very cute city))))))))))) thanks)))
@StockholmWalks Жыл бұрын
I think so too
@josemessiasrosa88562 жыл бұрын
I have already visited Helsinki twice, I will definitely put this town on my list when I go to Finland again.
@StockholmWalks2 жыл бұрын
It is a charming little town
@ingriddeckert37212 жыл бұрын
It's a very beautiful town.
@StockholmWalks2 жыл бұрын
I agree 🇫🇮
@alafenetre812 жыл бұрын
Another great place! I put it in my agenda for next year when I visit Scandinavia :-)
@StockholmWalks2 жыл бұрын
Yes, it’s a charming place! But wait for my rainy walk in the non- tourist parts before you finalize your plans 😉
@marinabencek3112 жыл бұрын
beautiful 👍
@StockholmWalks2 жыл бұрын
💙🙏
@ardiris27152 жыл бұрын
Thank you! Your videos are a lifeline for those of us in wheelchairs. (:
@StockholmWalks2 жыл бұрын
Thank you- That’s very good to hear! This is a particularly inaccessible town I’d say.
@ardiris27152 жыл бұрын
@@StockholmWalks Winters do that. (:
@StockholmWalks2 жыл бұрын
And cobblestone I imagine
@user-vb5ck9nh9b2 жыл бұрын
Очень любим Порвоо!
@StockholmWalks2 жыл бұрын
Me too!
@thabitaboubetans15186 ай бұрын
❤❤❤❤❤ jag saknar Borgå so mycket 😢
@StockholmWalks6 ай бұрын
Borgå är toppen! Här finns fler promenader från Borgå: kzbin.info/aero/PLquhEbgx-gHeZneY9UnesR9dbm9wfU1--&si=8ZcbLjo6ifR-IA73
@MrTimodon2 жыл бұрын
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!
@StockholmWalks2 жыл бұрын
Borgå & Stockholm kompletterar varandra rätt fint tycker jag!
@user-xt1ie3on1p2 жыл бұрын
Благодарю за прогулку по прекрасному и уютному городку.
@StockholmWalks2 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it, I like this place
@bor.74122 жыл бұрын
@@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.💥👍🎩👏👏👏
@johnislander79565 ай бұрын
@@bor.7412 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
@user-yd6sj3pe4jАй бұрын
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
@valderezasada75822 жыл бұрын
I started to love Finland when l watched the Finnish series " The Black Widows Pact"🤗🇧🇷🧡
@StockholmWalks2 жыл бұрын
Oh, I haven’t heard of that. Good I suppose?
@valderezasada75822 жыл бұрын
@@StockholmWalks I understand, but I've watched the series twice. Thanks for your reply, have a nice week 💋
@andreypolyantsev2 жыл бұрын
Yes, Finland is a beautiful country and I live nearby in Karelia.Thanks for the walk
@StockholmWalks2 жыл бұрын
Oh! Karelia! A place I want to visit some day!
@andreypolyantsev2 жыл бұрын
@@StockholmWalks Välkomna
@tuttirulla Жыл бұрын
@@StockholmWalks You should try Nurmes
@StockholmWalks Жыл бұрын
@@tuttirulla oh, so many places I would love to go! If I get a chance I will!
@vesaparkkonen42792 жыл бұрын
Hometown
@StockholmWalks2 жыл бұрын
Is it? A beautiful hometown!
@sylvier95482 жыл бұрын
une belle vidéo🤎🤎🤍💯👍🐦🐥🕊🌻🌻🌹🌹🏵💮🌸💐
@StockholmWalks2 жыл бұрын
Merci 💙
@jarikinnunen17182 жыл бұрын
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.
@StockholmWalks2 жыл бұрын
Kind of working / living in old town Stockholm I suppose
@shcheah20022 жыл бұрын
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. 🤔
@StockholmWalks2 жыл бұрын
Glad you liked it! I’m not aware of using a 3d effect so it might be your screen… or eyes 😜
@torpmorp13244 ай бұрын
Well, it was a part of Sweden for about 700-800 years.
@user-hz8xo5fs5j2 жыл бұрын
Città dove stato girato film russo-filandese"За спичками"Meravigliosa località.
@StockholmWalks2 жыл бұрын
Aha! I haven’t seen that one! The Bruce Willice movie the Jackal had some scenes from here as well
@yvonneimjack82012 жыл бұрын
Gamla Stan I Borgå är en vacker plats för turiter att se på jag vet det för jag bor I Borgå☺️
@StockholmWalks2 жыл бұрын
Ja, jag är ofta i Borgå och tycker mycket om hela området
@sgt.pepper1956 Жыл бұрын
That yellow building at 5:28 mark just got burned down completely. In that building there is a restaurant called " Meat District".
@StockholmWalks Жыл бұрын
What?! Really? An accident or what?
@StockholmWalks Жыл бұрын
I’ve found news articles about it now. Thank you for telling me, Porvoo is close to my heart
@uaintme64192 жыл бұрын
I live in Porvoo
@StockholmWalks2 жыл бұрын
I like Porvoo- do you ?
@YaSin-su4kh2 жыл бұрын
Stockholm Walks. Where is Stockholm City i miss it with it's colorful buiding and the Lovely architecture. Pls try to upload more of!
@StockholmWalks2 жыл бұрын
Well, I have uploaded about 700 videos from central Stockholm: check out my playlist section for the different city areas: KZbin.com/Stockholmwalks
@StockholmWalks2 жыл бұрын
Maybe this is the playlist for you: kzbin.info/aero/PLquhEbgx-gHdSxZZuVod7wURH6-CDWjkS
@Kerppu682 жыл бұрын
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.
@StockholmWalks2 жыл бұрын
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!
@Kerppu682 жыл бұрын
@@StockholmWalks Interesting - Hamina being my home town...
@StockholmWalks2 жыл бұрын
Aha- Walk Will be coming! You can tell me what goodies I didn’t catch!
@franbric56402 жыл бұрын
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.
@StockholmWalks2 жыл бұрын
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
@franbric56402 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@StockholmWalks2 жыл бұрын
Those first impressions stay with us! I never been to Budapest, but it looks like a place I would like
@franbric56402 жыл бұрын
@@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
@shirleyboy88592 жыл бұрын
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
@StockholmWalks2 жыл бұрын
Moi! Level of laid backness varies greatly I’d say (Östermalm vs Countryside). And I’m good at enjoying life!
@shirleyboy88592 жыл бұрын
@@StockholmWalks Good to hear ...... Heatwave over in Yorkshire now.... 20c and rain!!!! Welcome to a UK Summer... :-))) xxxxx
@shirleyboy88592 жыл бұрын
@@StockholmWalks Wonderful Helsinki video SW..... Did you get to see the Giant Moose Statue?? :-))) xxx
@StockholmWalks2 жыл бұрын
I don’t remember ever seeing a gigant moose in Helsinki?! Where is that?
@shirleyboy88592 жыл бұрын
@@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....
@svenskbibel Жыл бұрын
Fint, men du skulle förstås ha gått in i den historiska Borgå Domkyrka också.
@StockholmWalks Жыл бұрын
Jo, det får bli en annan gång!
@VbSuro10 ай бұрын
Дома постройки времен Российской империи очень красивые! Вы молодцы, что следите за ними.
@StockholmWalks10 ай бұрын
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.
@VbSuro10 ай бұрын
@@StockholmWalks Спасибо за информацию!
@cicerolima74102 жыл бұрын
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".
@StockholmWalks2 жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
Too sunny.
@StockholmWalks Жыл бұрын
Not always a problem in Finland
@kuvgang4121 Жыл бұрын
Finland has hard language no?????
@StockholmWalks Жыл бұрын
I’m not sure what you mean by hard?
@kuvgang4121 Жыл бұрын
@@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
@lildenis82813 ай бұрын
stay out of p-town, these are my hoods
@bor.74122 жыл бұрын
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.💥👍🎩👏👏👏
@StockholmWalks2 жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
@@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).
@robinlindholm15253 ай бұрын
@@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.
@robinlindholm15253 ай бұрын
@@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.