Rauma

Alfred Kordelin’s Burial Chapel and the Old Cemetery

This beautiful chapel was built by Kordelin's family and donated to the parish. It is in a very peaceful setting in the middle of the Old Cemetery.

Church of the Holy Cross

Pyhän ristin kirkko

A former Franciscan monastery, now a Lutheran church, built in the 15th century. Medieval wall and ceiling paintings.

Former Town Hall and Lönnström Art Museum

The former town hall hosts exhibitions of fine art, design, photography, architecture and environmental art.

Kiikartorni

A wooden tower overlooking the Syväraumanlahti bay with a tourist information centre offering info about island cruises.

Kirsti’s house

A typical building in Old Rauma built in the 18th century. It presents the living conditions and life of the 19th and 20th century. Inhabitants have included sailors, bobbin lace makers, a blacksmith and a firefighter.

Kuuskajaskari

A former military area that still has old 152-millimetre coastal artillery cannons.

Marela

A beautiful museum presenting the home of a ship-owner from the turn of the 20th century, at the culmination of Rauma seafaring skill.

Observation tower

Also functioning as the city's water tower, has a beautiful manufactured waterfall on its grounds, and the view from the observation level café up on the water tower is likewise beautiful. Rauma souvenirs.

Small fee

Old Rauma

Vanha Rauma

Old Rauma is the largest uniform wooden town in the Nordic countries, and is a since the 550th anniversary of the city. The oldest inhabited buildings date back to the 17th century. Some of the architecture may make you think you're in southern Sweden or Denmark (e.g. the city hall with its straight yellow walls and brick roof), or the Baltics (the wooden houses with their decorated details). Compared to the wooden old town of Porvoo, the streets are wider and the houses tidier but because of that it also seems less lively.

Rauma Art Museum

Exhibitions focusing on the Rauma region and the countries surrounding the Baltic Sea.

Sammallahdenmäki

A Bronze Age burial site in the village of Kivikylä, well signposted off Highway 12 between Rauma and Tampere. While a UNESCO World Heritage Site of great archaeological significance ("The largest, most varied and complete burial site from the Scandinavian Bronze Age, 1500–500 B.C."), it's not all that much to look at, being composed of just 36 burial cairns – piles of stone of varying shapes and sizes. Six of the cairns are highlighted in the official tourist flyer and on the map at the entrance, and the most famous of them is probably Huilu ("flute"), a cairn over 20 m long and perhaps 2-3 m wide. Guided tours starting from the parking lot are available M–F in the summer peak season (June–August).

Free, guiding €2/person

Tammela

Shows how an old, culturally significant log house is renovated and maintained.

The Ruins of the Church of the Holy Trinity

Built in the 15th century as the parish church, it was destroyed in a fire in 1640. Now it is a peaceful setting amidst a park.

The potter's workshop

The workroom and home of a stove tile maker from the early 20th century.

Kylmäpihlaja

An island with a lighthouse that operates as a hotel.

Rauma Maritime Museum

Exhibitions about the history of seafaring.

Reksaari

Island groves can be seen here.