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editor — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 17:49:00 +0000

This was a large-scale operation for which entirely new techniques had to be devised, and a special dry dock had to be built to house the vessel, which is 62 m (200 ft) long. Reconstruction work is now almost complete. Numerous finds from the ship furniture, everyday objects, coins, carved ornaments, etc. are displayed in a special exhibition. The Skansen Open-Air Museum (established 1891), extends over a large area to the E. The founder and initiator of Skansen was Artur Hazelius, who wished to save something of the older Sweden before the development of industry had irreversibly changed the country.

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Travel map Scandinavia

editor — Sat, 21 Jan 2017 19:23:00 +0000

Turku to Uusikaupunki. Road 8 runs via Raisio and Mynamaki to Laitila; 18 km (12 miles) SW on Road 198 is Uusikaupunki (Swedish Nystad), a port and commercial town (pop. 12,000) on the Gulf of Bothnia with a large granite-working industry. The town was founded during the reign of Gustavus Adolphus in 1616. The treaty of Nystad which ended the Nordic War and gave Russia possession of Ingermanland, Estonia, Livonia and part of Karelia was signed here in 1721 (monument in market square, erected 1961). In Town Hall Square is the New Church (1863); the Old Church (1629) now houses

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