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31/7, sa
The Bridgettines Hostel,
Ursininkatu 15a, Turku
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Arrival
- Arrival in Turku
- 19:30 dinner
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1/8, su |
Turku - Swedish capital
- 8:30-9:00 Introduction to Chain
- 10:00 Cathedral service
- 11:30-12:30 presenting the Cathedral

'church coffee' in Aula, about 12:45
- 13:00-14:00 Aboa Vetus (Old Turku) museum,
Hanseatic connections in Europe
- 15:00 Lunch: Daphne - symbol of the sea

- 16:30-17:30 Castle - Symbol Swedish domination
- Tasks, preparation etc.

- 20:00 dinner
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2/8, mo
Helsinki Park Hotel Käpylä |
King's road, industry, Kalevala
- 8:30 Leaving for Fiskars by bus
- The King's Road
- 10:00-11:00 Sammatti, the birth cottage of Elias Lönnrot - reading parts of the Kalevala in own language (part of the introduction

- 11.30-12.30 Fiskars - symbol of 19th c. industry - educational programmes, museum village
- 13:00-14:00 Lunch in Kuparipaja (The Copper Smithy) - Forging the Sampo

- 16:00-17:00 Tarvaspää, castle atelier of Akseli Gallén-Kallela, illustrator of Kalevala

- 18:00 Helsinki
- Bus 69 to the Helsinki centre or hotel: dinner
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3/8, tu
Old Town Maestro's |
Helsinki - Russian capital
- 8:00 leaving for Helsinki centre (by tram)
- Leaving Tallinn luggage in harbour lockers

- 9:20 ferry to Suomenlinna - Finnish fortress - Kustaanmiekka and the King's gate
- 10:00 Visitor's centre: multimedia
- 10:30-11:30 Guided tour

- 12:00 Ferry back to city
- 12:30 Uspenskij cathedral

- 13:00 lunch
- 14:00 statue of Alexander the II,
David Crawford, What have the Russians ever done for us?
- 14:30 Nikolaj Church/Tuomiokirkko,

the influence of its architect C.L. Engel
- 15:00-16:00 Finnish Literary Society - Folklore Archives,
literature and national awakening/identity 
- Optional: Helsinki City Museum / free walk
- 17:00 coffee break
- 18:00 to the harbour - getting the Tallinn luggage
- 19:00 - Ferry to Tallinn (dinner on the boat)
- 20:30 - Arrival in Tallinn - hotel - a walk in the centre
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Tallinn - between east and west
- 8:30 Tallinn: feudal - commercial - Hanseatic city - St Alexander Nevsky Cathedral

- 12:00 Nikolai church and Bernt Notke

- 12:30 lunch
- 13:30 tram to KUMU
- 12:00 KUMU - Eerik Haamer, refugee painter of (European) coastal regions - his life and paintings as an illustration of Estonia's dramatic 20th c. history.

- Park and Peter the Great's influence
- Finnish and Estonian literary/national 'awakening'.
- Reflection: What have the Russians ever done for us?
(differences in) attitude towards Russia/USSR
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Kirjokivi Manor
5/8, th |
To the east
- 8:00 Ferry to Helsinki
- 10:00 bus to Porvoo - first Finnish 'independence'.

- 12:00 Porvoo old stone church and the exhibition in the museum
- 15:00 Kotka ('Eagle' - twin city of Tallinn)
- Lunch in Villa Kärkisaari

- Kyminlinna - chain of fortresses - civil war - Karelian refugees
- 17:00 Langinkoski imperial fishing lodge
- Along the Kymi river towards North

- 20:00 Kirjokivi Manor: settling down, sauna, evening snack
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6/8, fr |
Wilderness
- 7:00 morning swim and breakfast
- time for preparing production
- 10:00 departure for Verla, World Heritage Site - forest industry

- 12:00 return to Kirjokivi
- 12:30 lunch
- 13:30 departure for Repovesi National Park

- 14:30 forest, walking (various options and distances!), swimming, eating etcetera - northern/Finnish identity
- 18:30 return to Kirjokivi

- 19:00 Sauna, evening snack, etcetera
- Reading Aleksis Kivi, The seven brothers in the Sauna

- Finnish/Estonian literature
- Searching for Sampo? - does a Finno-Ugrian 'identity' exist?
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Final
- 7:00 morning swim and breakfast
- 9:00-10:30 working time: production
- 10:30 bus leaves to return to Helsinki

- Lunch in Aino
- Formal closing of the programme
Optional (for those who stay)
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Editor(s): Marja Laine, Anna Voipio, Vello Rus, Fokko Dijkstra |
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