These photos are taken by me last weekend (9.4.2005) when I walked around the city of Vaasa (or Vasa in Swedish) looking for a pair of new shoes. The city is the sunniest in Finland indeed, and like most of the old "garden" towns, looks best in the summer, but this day happened to be a gray Saturday in April.

Finns do not have to comment since I've shown these pics with some extra ones in Talo Forum already. ;)

I have to admit that I only took 1 to 2 photos of each target, alas some of them never made it to my server.

http://www.netikka.net/jukkasah/mjs/wasa/asor.jpg
Hotel Astor Wasa near the Railway Station

http://www.netikka.net/jukkasah/mjs/wasa/wtc.jpg
MediCentra - some sort of medical building

http://www.netikka.net/jukkasah/mjs/wasa/beige.jpg
A Woody Corner

http://www.netikka.net/jukkasah/mjs/wasa/uc.jpg
Hartmaninkuja alley under construction

http://www.netikka.net/jukkasah/mjs/wasa/finalen.jpg
Hovrättsesplanaden 12

http://www.netikka.net/jukkasah/mjs/wasa/katedraali.jpg
Lutheran Cathedral

http://www.netikka.net/jukkasah/mjs/wasa/lyseo.jpg
Secondary School

http://www.netikka.net/jukkasah/mjs/wasa/paatti.jpg
Fiskstrand (Kalaranta) with Administrative Court building

http://www.netikka.net/jukkasah/mjs/wasa/kotka.jpg
"For the Aviators of Finland"

http://www.netikka.net/jukkasah/mjs/wasa/skyline.jpg
Factory Grounds

http://www.netikka.net/jukkasah/mjs/wasa/oikeus.jpg
The Court of Appeal

http://www.netikka.net/jukkasah/mjs/wasa/puistikko.jpg
Hovrättsesplanaden (Hovioikeudenpuistikko)

http://www.netikka.net/jukkasah/mjs/wasa/puistikko2.jpg
Hovrättsesplanaden, Part II

http://www.netikka.net/jukkasah/mjs/wasa/rakennus.jpg
Town Hall

http://www.netikka.net/jukkasah/mjs/wasa/hallintotalo.jpg
Administrative Building

http://www.netikka.net/jukkasah/mjs/wasa/vesitorni.jpg
The Old Water Tower - works as panorama tower in the summer

http://www.netikka.net/jukkasah/mjs/wasa/hartmann.jpg
Hartmann palace near the Central Market

http://www.netikka.net/jukkasah/mjs/wasa/asema.jpg
Walking towards the Railway Station

http://www.netikka.net/jukkasah/mjs/wasa/nakyma.jpg
View from the Railway Station front door

Coming up in June: More sunny photos of the dowtown and the ruins/remained buildings of old Wasa.

thanks! its nice to see some other finnish towns for once. Vasa seems to be a nice town, i come to think a little bit of Uppsala when i saw some the pictures.

http://www.netikka.net/jukkasah/mjs/wasa/lyseo.jpg
ah,you can see the Vasa weapon shield on the top of that house.

Nice, but it doesn't look too sunny there though.

Nice, but it doesn't look too sunny there though.

Yeh, quite a sarcastic title, but that's actually one of the slogans of the city.

Thanks for pictures.
Nice buildings of the beginning of 20th century.
Are the other pictures from 20-30ies?

nice pics

my grandmother came from Vaasa

Thanks for pictures.
Nice buildings of the beginning of 20th century.
Are the other pictures from 20-30ies?

Eldest are from late 1800's, because the old town was burned down in ~1850, and the new city of Nikolaistad was founded closer by the sea.

A lot of flags, i can count thirteen finnish flags on your pictures.
Thanks for the pics and nice looking town!

Vasa is one of Finland's most Swedish towns. The city looks like a mix of Stockholm and Uppsala and it has the atmosphere of a Swedish city like some other cities in Finland like Mariehamn. It's named after king Gustav Vasa.

I really love some of the buildings in Vasa.

Thanks for the tour. Even with grey weather this city looks nice. I like street shots, there aren`t very many cars and everywhere seems to be "tranquil feeling".

Vaasa is also a strong contender for having the ugliest city buses of all Finnish towns :) The only real competitor is Hämeenlinna.

Nice town. Reminds me of Pori (Bjorneborg in Swedish).

Vaasa is a strange town. in this http://www.netikka.net/jukkasah/mjs/wasa/nakyma.jpg pic it looks like nice and relatively dense, but then there are these areas which aren't urban at all. I can't make up my mind if I like it or not.

Vaasa is a strange town. in this http://www.netikka.net/jukkasah/mjs/wasa/nakyma.jpg pic it looks like nice and relatively dense, but then there are these areas which aren't urban at all. I can't make up my mind if I like it or not.

Have ye been there? Yeah, the truth is that mostly only the newer parts of the downtown are truly urban, but I like that small-town feeling, especially in the summer. And the fact is that there aren't more than 75 000 inhabitants in Vaasa. I try to snap some suburban commieblock photos next time...

75'000? Sounds too much. I've heard it's closer 55'000 or so. I dunno. In Finland it's really difficult to tell a city's or town's pop since we're probably the only country in Europe where the word "town" refers to the whole municipality populationwise. Oh, and no, I've never been there, but I'd surely like to go there someday.

I agree with Maris that it does resemble Pori (Björneborg) slightly. My family originates from near there.. a town called Norrmark which is very very beautiful. The town is visited by architects from around the world as it features masterpieces by Aalto and one of the world's greatest private houses from the last century + many old Nordic wooden houses and mansions, parks.

75'000? Sounds too much. I've heard it's closer 55'000 or so.

Dang. :D That's right, it's 57 000. I find it kinda funny that a town that has over 50 000 inhabitants is officially already a "big city" in Finland. Doesn't really matter because only the word "city" is used in everyday language. I tend to call some very small towns "kauppala" (borough or the former name for a small town) though. :D

very very beautiful town!

i epecially like the water tower and hartmann's building (toni has already shown this pic to me:D) (:


thanks dude!

If this is the sunniest town in Finland - how is the least sunny town when?! (just kidding).
Nice photos, beautiful buildings. I think it looks much like Sweden. It is very nice to see other cities then the most famous ones.

Btw, the population is 57 000 according to World Gazetteer.

for where I come from and as for my standarts I couldnt help to smile when i saw these pictures of the SUNNIEST town in Finland... :)

If I remember correctly Vaasa once advertised itself as the sunniest town in Finland. These kinds of slogans were back then very common among the smaller places in the country. Most of them had little or nothing to do with reality. I remember some obscure little village I had never in heard of calling itself the "Monaco of Finland", or smt. :D:D:D:D:D Lahti (a town of 90'000 people then) had a the most outrageous slogan of all "Lahti - business city". I still can't stop laughing thinking of all those slogans. :)

So nice Finnish city! :eek2: :okay:

cool. Vaasa is much more of a city them i had expected it to be, how far is it from Vaasa o Jacobstad?

how far is it from Vaasa o Jacobstad?

100 kilometers.

http://maps.eniro.com/servlets/fi_RouteImageLocator?type=RoutePlan&profile=Route&departure=21.616351;63.095201&destination=22.703648;63.674553&size=300x300

Pietarsaari = Jakobstad

Nice pics with nice buildings. The old watertower looks mighty, how tall is it?

No disrespect here, but my first impression of the town was "...how Russian!"

varför ser det så jävla dystert ut i Finland? man blir ju deppig bara av att se på bilderna.

Any city looks dull on a gray day. But it's never the less obvious that the architecture in these pics is nice I think.

varför ser det så jävla dystert ut i Finland? man blir ju deppig bara av att se på bilderna.

Du grabben, har du varit i Vasa ? Hur kan du veta det ??? Stämingen här i Helsingfors iaf är alltid på toppen !! Nordens party city numero uno! ;)

Vasa is one of Finland's most Swedish towns. The city looks like a mix of Stockholm and Uppsala and it has the atmosphere of a Swedish city like some other cities in Finland like Mariehamn. It's named after king Gustav Vasa.

I really love some of the buildings in Vasa.

Yes you're right. In Vaasa you don't have to speak finnish. You could survive with swedish.

100 kilometers.

http://maps.eniro.com/servlets/fi_RouteImageLocator?type=RoutePlan&profile=Route&departure=21.616351;63.095201&destination=22.703648;63.674553&size=300x300

Pietarsaari = Jakobstad

Nice pic! How I hope that we don't have our east neighbour or just sea between them!

Beautiful buildings!

Funny to log on the forum for the first time in a year, and find my old thread on the first page of S&B. Celebrating that, here's some more pics I took back in 2006 with my good ol' Canon A400. This time the sun actually shined. Maybe it had something to do with the fact that the King of Sweden was in town.

(Boring fact: the first pics were taken in July and the latter in September, but you can't tell the difference, can you.)

http://www.donitsi.net/wa06/Hartman.jpg

http://www.donitsi.net/wa06/Tori.jpg

http://www.donitsi.net/wa06/Rewell.jpg

http://www.donitsi.net/wa06/Hesburger.jpg

http://www.donitsi.net/wa06/Fontana.jpg

http://www.donitsi.net/wa06/TheGuardianofMcDonalds.jpg

http://www.donitsi.net/wa06/Liikennevalot2.jpg

http://www.donitsi.net/wa06/Kirkko.jpg

http://www.donitsi.net/wa06/Block3.jpg

http://www.donitsi.net/wa06/Ol.jpg

http://www.donitsi.net/wa06/Block4.jpg

http://www.donitsi.net/wa06/BlockX1.jpg

http://www.donitsi.net/wa06/BlockX2.jpg

http://www.donitsi.net/wa06/Posti.jpg

http://www.donitsi.net/wa06/Astor.jpg

http://www.donitsi.net/wa06/Loftet.jpg

http://www.donitsi.net/wa06/Je.jpg

http://www.donitsi.net/wa06/Block5.jpg

http://www.donitsi.net/wa06/Handelsesp.jpg

http://www.donitsi.net/wa06/09/v1.jpg

http://www.donitsi.net/wa06/09/v3.jpg

http://www.donitsi.net/wa06/09/v4.jpg

http://www.donitsi.net/wa06/09/v6.jpg

http://www.donitsi.net/wa06/09/v8.jpg

http://www.donitsi.net/wa06/09/v12.jpg

http://www.donitsi.net/wa06/09/v13.jpg

http://www.donitsi.net/wa06/09/v14.jpg

http://www.donitsi.net/wa06/09/v15_65.jpg

http://www.donitsi.net/wa06/09/v16.jpg

Here's also 2 bonus pics from 2005:

http://www.donitsi.net/wa/Funky.jpg

http://www.donitsi.net/wa/Apotek.jpg

It's always a joy to see pictures of the cities on the glorious western coast :applause:

awesome pics... thanks for sharing them with us... hope to see more in the future! ;)