Old Rauma
Old Rauma is the wooden centre of the town of Rauma, Finland. It was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1991 because of its unique wooden architecture and its well-preserved medieval town layout.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Suburb
- Description: old town of the city of Rauma, Finland
- Also known as: “Vanha-Rauma”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of the Holy Cross and Äijänsuo stadium.
Church of the Holy Cross
Church
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.
The Church of the Holy Cross is a medieval fieldstone church in Rauma, Finland. It is located in the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Old Rauma. The church stands by the small stream of Raumanjoki.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rauma and Lapijoki.
Rauma
Photo: Kallerna, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Rauma or Raumo is a town in Satakunta. The wooden houses in the centre of the old town are a UNESCO World Heritage site, as is the Bronze Age burial site Sammallahdenmäki about 20 km east of the centre.
Lapijoki
Village
Photo: MPorciusCato, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lapijoki is a village, which is situated 9 km northeast of Old Rauma.
Old Rauma
- Categories: old town, urban landscape, residential area, and locality
- Location: Ostrobothnia, West Coast, Finland, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
61.12804° or 61° 7′ 41″ northLongitude
21.51321° or 21° 30′ 48″ eastElevation
14 metres (46 feet)Open location code
9GH34GH7+67OpenStreetMap ID
way 128246364OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=residentialOpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
6696911Wikidata ID
Q828417
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Old Rauma” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “راوما القديمة”
- Azerbaijani: “Qədim Rauma”
- Basque: “Antzinako Rauma”
- Catalan: “Antiga Rauma”
- Chinese: “劳马古城”
- Chinese: “古劳马”
- Czech: “Stará Rauma”
- Czech: “Staré město Rauma”
- Dutch: “Oud Rauma”
- Esperanto: “Gamla Raumo”
- Esperanto: “Malnova Raŭmo”
- Esperanto: “Vanha Rauma”
- Finnish: “Rauman keskusta”
- Finnish: “Vanha Rauma”
- French: “ancienne Rauma”
- French: “Ancienne Rauma”
- Galician: “Rauma antiga”
- Georgian: “ძველი რაუმა”
- German: “Alte Stadt Rauma”
- German: “Altstadt von Rauma”
- Greek: “Παλαιά Ραούμα”
- Greek: “Παλαιά Ράουμα”
- Hebrew: “ראומה העתיקה”
- Hungarian: “Rauma óvárosa”
- Italian: “Vecchia Rauma”
- Japanese: “ラウマ旧市街”
- Latvian: “Vecā Rauma”
- Lithuanian: “Raumos senamiestis”
- Macedonian: “Стара Раума”
- Maltese: “Ċentru Storiku ta‘ Rauma”
- Maltese: “Ċentru Storiku ta’ Rauma”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gamle Raumo”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gamle Raumo”
- Norwegian: “Gamle Raumo”
- Persian: “راوما قدیمی”
- Portuguese: “Rauma Antiga”
- Romanian: “Vechea Rauma”
- Russian: “Старая Раума”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Stara Rauma”
- Slovak: “Stará Rauma”
- Slovenian: “Staro mestno jedro Raume”
- Spanish: “Antigua Rauma”
- Swedish: “Gamla Raumo”
- Turkish: “Eski Rauma”
- Ukrainian: “Стара Раума”
- Vietnamese: “Khu thành cổ Rauma”
- Vietnamese: “Thành phố Rauma cổ”
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