Get to know Vaasa on foot

The mobile route guide of Old Vaasa takes you on a journey into the city’s past. Produced by the museums of the City of Vaasa, the guide aims to make the area’s history more widely known and easily accessible.

You can use the mobile guide in a browser on a smart device or in the Citynomadi app, which you can download from your app store. The free app also allows you to use the mobile route guide offline.

The Old Vaasa mobile route guide introduces you to historical sites from the 18th and 19th centuries, as well as to personal life stories. Along the route, you’ll learn more about the city’s historic buildings and Vaasa’s past role as an important trading hub. From its founding in 1606 until the fire of 1852, the city of Vaasa was located in what is now Old Vaasa. After the fire, the city was relocated to its present location.

You can choose to walk or cycle the route. In the guide, the walking route is marked in yellow. The cycling route is longer and marked in brown. The walking route starts at the Old Vaasa Museum in the Falanderska House and ends at the Old Vaasa Canal, where the city’s western toll gate stood in the 1600s. The cycling route begins at the Old Vaasa Hospital, where the Vaasa County Hospital was founded in the 18th century, and ends near Molnträsket at the Northern Royal Farm and water mills.

https://www.vaasa.fi/sv/aktuellt/mobilruttguiden-vacker-vasas-historia-till-liv/

In this guide, you will find a walking route that goes around the market square and City Hall with a lot of interesting things to see and learn on the way. There are also walking guides with longer routes available.

We hope that this walking guide will help you to discover the rich variety of nature, culture and history that are in our immediate environment.

Open the digital route map.

Down load PDF-version of the guide.

In this guide, you will find a walking route that goes northwards from the City Hall and back along the shore with a lot of interesting things to see and learn on the way. There are also walking guides with other routes available.

We hope that this walking guide will help you to discover the rich variety of nature, culture and history that are in our immediate environment.

Open the digital route map.

Down load PDF-version of the guide.

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helena.kyrolainen@netikka.fi

https://www.vaasanmarssi.fi/english/vaasan-kavelyklubi-ry/

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The first part of the nature trail around Vaasa Southern City Bay (Eteläinen kaupunginselkä – Södra Stadsfjärden) is now complete (opening 1.6.2022). The ten kilometer long trail runs along the shores of Vaasa from Kalaranta all the way to Risö, and along the trail, new rest areas and a completely new bridge over the Old Vaasa canal have been built.

Facts about the route

• Kalaranta-Risö is the beginning of an approximately 30 kilometers long outdoor trail around the City Bay.
• Along the trail, rest areas, benches and landing places for paddlers have been built. In addition, the lighting and signs have been improved.
• On the trail there are several culturally and historically valuable objects, which signs erected along the trail tell more about.
• The trail is mostly accessible and, for example, from Suvilahti there is a two-meter-wide accessible passage all the way to Majakkakivi.

 

History and culture in the form of Edvin Hevonkoski’s wooden and metal sculptures, in the middle of the nature along  the nature trail in Asevelikylä. At the moment there are over 100 named works of art or groups of works of art. The Korsu Museum consists of a crew bunker filled with wartime objects, the maintenance bunker Töpinä and a smoke sauna, all authentic from World War II.

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http://asevelikyla.fi/edvininpolku/

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The Pilvilampi recreational area is located approximately nine kilometers east of the city centre. It makes up a proportion of an elongated ridge, of which includes Höstvesi and continues north of Vaasa. The recreational area itself covers an area of roughly 800 hectares. In the winter, the area is ridden with marked cross-country ski trails, which in summer are transformed into bicycle and hiking paths.

Download brochure for the nature path at Pilvilampi here.

https://www.vaasa.fi/en/living/freetime/naturevaasa/attractions/natural-environments/pilvilampi/

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The Eteläinen Kaupunginselkä bay (the Southern City Bay) is located southeast of Vaasa city centre. There’s a nature trail and two bird towers in the area. Follow the signs ´Lintutorni` from the crossroad of the streets: Kanavasillantie/Hevossaarentie. Parking area at the end of road Ampujantie.

Coordinates: Euref-Fin (~ WGS84) lat: 63° 03.7663′ lon: 21° 41.9537’ETRS-TM35FIN N: 7003634 E: 232305

https://www.nationalparks.fi/kvarken/descriptionoftrails#RisoNatureTrail

Welcome to a walk from the Öjbergsmossen bog to a giant’s pot hole and over a devil’s field to the dwarfed pinetree-covered meteorite-crater rim of Söderfjärden

Öjberget is located in Sundom, at a 9 km distance from the centre of Vaasa. The trail is 2,5 km long  and the starting point is beside a big information board in Öjberget´s stadium area.

Öjberget is a unique ”mountain landscape” for the Ostrobothnian coast, with its highest point at an elevation of 50 metres. It is a magically rocky landscape with very old dwarfed pine trees, dramatic rocky formations, a giant’s kettle, and an ancient shore area called the Devil’s Field

The most ancient traces of human activity in the area of Vaasa are also found here. The findings originate from the Stone Age about 4,000 years ago.

In the outlook tower(+65 m a.s.l.) on the top of the slalom hill there are info boards about what you see in different directions: the meteorite impact crater Söderfjärden, the Kvarken archipelago, the village of Sundom and the centre of Vaasa.

Information leaflet (pdf)

http://www.sundom.fi/en/what_to_see_in_sundom

Öjen’s nature trail, situated at the south side of Vaasa, is 4,5 km long. There are information signs along the trail that tell you about the area’s nature, medicinal plants and folk tales. There are also maps showing your location. The trail is easy to walk on because the terrain is fairly flat. However, please remember that the duckboards can be very slippery depending on the weather conditions. It takes about 2,5 to 3 hours to go around the trail.

Facilities: at the campfire site, there are benches, firewood, an axe and a dry toilet.

The nature trail is reached from the parking area along Myrgrundintie road (road number 6741). Walk along the smaller Öjenvägen road about 300 metres until you see a small bridge and information sign on your left side.

 

https://www.nationalparks.fi/ojen