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Savonlinna

Savonlinna

Savonlinna is a small city in province, Eastern Finland, close to the border. Savonlinna is one of the iconic tourism destinations of Finland with traditions of hospitality going back to the 19th century.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Savonlinna railway station and Savonlinna Cathedral.

Railway station
Photo: Junafani, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is located in the town of Savonlinna, . It is located along the Huutokoski–Parikkala railway, and its only neighboring station is Pääskylahti in the west.

Church
Photo: Periegetes, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is located in Savonlinna, . It was built between 1874 and 1878 and designed by architect Axel Hampus Dalström in the Gothic Revival style. It has room for 1000 people.

Museum
Photo: Ainali, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Savonlinna

Latitude
61.8699° or 61° 52′ 12″ north
Longitude
28.88° or 28° 52′ 48″ east
Population
31,800
Elevation
75 metres (246 feet)
IATA airport code
SVL
United Nations Location Code
FI SVL
Open location code
9GHCVV9J+X2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 53211431
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
637292
Wiki­data ID
Q683512
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Welsh—“Savonlinna” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Savonlinna”
  • Arabic: “سافونلينا”
  • Armenian: “Սավոնլինա”
  • Asturian: “conceyu de Savonlinna”
  • Asturian: “Savonlinna (conceyu de Finlandia)”
  • Asturian: “Savonlinna”
  • Bashkir: “Савонлинна”
  • Belarusian: “Саванліна”
  • Bulgarian: “Саволина”
  • Bulgarian: “Савонлина”
  • Catalan: “Savonlinna”
  • Cebuano: “Savonlinna”
  • Chinese: “萨翁林纳”
  • Chinese: “薩翁林納”
  • Czech: “Savonlinna”
  • Danish: “Nyslott”
  • Danish: “Savonlinna”
  • Dutch: “Savonlinna”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سافونلينا”
  • Esperanto: “Savonlinna”
  • Estonian: “Nyslott”
  • Estonian: “Savonlinna linn”
  • Estonian: “Savonlinna”
  • Finnish: “Savonlinna”
  • Finnish: “Savonlinnan kaupunki”
  • French: “Nyslott”
  • French: “Savonlinna”
  • Galician: “Savonlinna”
  • Georgian: “სავონლინა”
  • German: “Nyslott”
  • German: “Savonlinna”
  • Hebrew: “סבונלינה”
  • Hungarian: “Savonlinna”
  • Icelandic: “Nyslott”
  • Inari Sami: “Savonlinna”
  • Indonesian: “Savonlinna”
  • Irish: “Savonlinna”
  • Italian: “Nyslott”
  • Italian: “Savonlinna”
  • Japanese: “サヴォンリナ”
  • Japanese: “サヴォンリンナ”
  • Japanese: “ニュースロット”
  • Korean: “사본린나”
  • Kotava: “Savonlinna”
  • Latvian: “Savonlinna”
  • Lithuanian: “Savonlina”
  • Livvi: “Savonlinnu”
  • Lombard: “Savonlinna”
  • Moksha: “Савонлинна”
  • Northern Sami: “Savonlinna”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nyslott”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Savonlinna”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nyslott”
  • Norwegian: “Nyslott”
  • Persian: “ساونلینا”
  • Persian: “ساون‌لینا”
  • Persian: “ساوونلاینا”
  • Polish: “Savonlinna”
  • Portuguese: “Savonlinna”
  • Romanian: “Savonlinna”
  • Russian: “Нейшлот”
  • Russian: “Нюслотт”
  • Russian: “Савонлинна”
  • Scots: “Savonlinna”
  • Serbian: “Savonlina”
  • Serbian: “Savonlinna”
  • Serbian: “Савонлина”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Savonlinna”
  • Silesian: “Savonlinna”
  • Skolt Sami: “Savonlinna”
  • Slovak: “Savonlinna”
  • Slovenian: “Nyslott”
  • Slovenian: “Savonlinna”
  • Spanish: “Nyslott”
  • Spanish: “Savonlinna”
  • Swedish: “Nyslott stad”
  • Swedish: “Nyslott”
  • Turkish: “Savonlinna”
  • Ukrainian: “Савонлінна”
  • Veps: “Savonlidn”
  • Vietnamese: “Savonlinna”
  • Welsh: “Savonlinna”
  • “Savonlinna”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Savonlinna”. Photo: Digr, CC BY-SA 4.0.