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Kloster Valamo
Sight / monastery
Valamo Monastery (Valamon luostari) is a still functioning monastery - the only Orthodox monastic monastery in Finland. The monastery church, which is well worth seeing, and the adjoining museum collection can be visited free of charge and are a much-visited place of pilgrimage. The souvenir shop attached to the monastery offers orthodox traditional products including beeswax candles. Wines produced in the monastery are offered in a vinotheque.
ADDRESS
79850 Uusi-Valamo Valamontie 42
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Pictures of the Poi and surroundings
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Things to see in the area
Kloster Valamo
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Linja-auto
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Parkplatz Laivalaituri
Parking in front of the dam, over which one goes to the only Orthodox monastery in Finland open January - December [ click for more information ]