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Photographer Dennis Båvenmark  Dennis Båvenmark {Karma:370}
Project N/A Camera Model Canon 300D
Categories Seascapes
Landscape
Architecture
Film Format CF
Portfolio Lens Canon  18-55mm EFS f/3.5-5.6
Uploaded 7/19/2006 Film / Memory Type CF
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Location City -  Porvoo
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Country - Finland   Finland
About This photo is taken one year ago in June. I woke up real early that morning and decided to go out and take some sunrise shots. This capture is from Porvoo Finland down by the Porvoo stream by the old town. This particully place (old town) is a very beautiful and popular tourist attraction and goes way back in Finnish history. Those red huts by the stream were used to trade different merchandise for example: coffee, driedfish, butter and grain. I used my old Canon 300D and the kit lens 18-55mm when taking this shot. Processed RAW in PS and added border.

Here´s a short history about Porvoo my hometown where I live.


History of Porvoo

A long time ago...
The Porvoo Castle was built on the hill and the town was named Borgå ("castle river") in Swedish.
The Porvoo parish and the church originated in the 13th century. The church was first built of wood, later of stone. It was founded high on the hill to dominate the town.
Six towns were established in Finland during the Middle Ages. Some of them grew to be towns without any official order having been issued. This was the case with Porvoo, which got the town rights after Turku in the 14th century. The story tells that in 1346 Maunu Eerikinpoika (Magnus Eriksson), then the King of Sweden, visited Porvoo and granted the town rights there and then.
The Town Prospered through Trade
Porvoo was born at the junction of the sea and the river, a place where people from surrounding villages used to come to trade their merchandise. Goods from Europe travelled via Porvoo to the north, and people from the north brought furs and other commodities to Porvoo, to be transported via Tallinn to Central Europe.The wealthiest and most influential townsmen were merchants of German origin, burghers who were responsible for town planning. They also built a centre for local administration and trade activities, with a town hall and a market place.
The riverside storehouses surrounded a medieval harbour into which salt and other products were imported. The full export rights of a staple town were first conceded to Porvoo as early as the 16th century. Since the rise of mercantilism in the 17th century, butter, timber, dried fish, linen and tar were items exported from Porvoo although tar had to be sold via Helsinki.
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Jonne Vihtori Åke   Jonne Vihtori Åke    {K:557} 12/26/2008
Historian läksyt!

suurkiitos

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Avi  Avi     {K:70138} 7/19/2006
GREAT picture !!!.. wonderful story !!.. very well done, my friend !!.. :)

all the very best,
Avi

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Aliihsan Pinçe Aliihsan Pinçe   {K:5485} 7/19/2006
excellent landscape ,wonderful composition
great colors and reflections
congratulations
best regards
Aliihsan

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