Porvoo Vicarage Hill Guide to our quests
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A great place with plenty of good food and the most charming host and staff
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Time long past
Article from 27 March 1889 in local newspaper Borgå-bladet, N:o 25.
The Vicarage Hill is as old as Porvoo and its farms and huts are densely inhabited. The oldest part of the vicarage hill, its real core, is an interconnection of larger and smaller buildings erected without the remotest idea of any building order. They have been built as the best fit for the individual, skirted to the bit here or an outbuilding there, often right in front of the neighbour’s nose. The result has been a chaos, whose strange roads and paths are well known to each vicar who serves the towns people.
The people who live “up there” on the Vicarage Hill are for the most part poor, yet content, striving and accommodating. Much of the old-fashioned virtuous attributes such as honesty, fairness and sincerity, despite the new age, still stubbornly hold on in the low old huts with their tanned four-pane windows. Such is a good life!
And today a “ new” Vicarage Hill is growing up. If you walk along the old country road to the hill at the folk school you will see several new buildings, all of which have emerged in recent years and further to the left of the country road...
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Time long past
Article from 27 March 1889 in local newspaper Borgå-bladet, N:o 25.
The Vicarage Hill is as old as Porvoo and its farms and huts are densely inhabited. The oldest part of the vicarage hill, its real core, is an interconnection of larger and smaller buildings erected without the remotest idea of any building order. They have been built as the best fit for the individual, skirted to the bit here or an outbuilding there, often right in front of the neighbour’s nose. The result has been a chaos, whose strange roads and paths are well known to each vicar who serves the towns people.
The people who live “up there” on the Vicarage Hill are for the most part poor, yet content, striving and accommodating. Much of the old-fashioned virtuous attributes such as honesty, fairness and sincerity, despite the new age, still stubbornly hold on in the low old huts with their tanned four-pane windows. Such is a good life!
And today a “ new” Vicarage Hill is growing up. If you walk along the old country road to the hill at the folk school you will see several new buildings, all of which have emerged in recent years and further to the left of the country road...
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walk around in our small old town is always a pleasure
full of history since the year 1346 and now a culinary treasure visited by many form near and far
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Porvoo
walk around in our small old town is always a pleasure
full of history since the year 1346 and now a culinary treasure visited by many form near and far
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Porvoon mitalla
The saying "Porvoon mitalla" i.e. Porvoo's measure means plentiful or bountiful, and dates back to the time of Swedish rule, when the crown fodge collected taxes from peasants as grain. The measuring cup had a midsole. The bailiff chose the larger side of the Porvoo measure. When he handed over the taxes to the king, he turned the measure the other way around, using the smaller side. He kept the difference to himself.
Buy yourself a "Porvoon Mitta" cup in the old town!