3 Star Places To Visit in Southern Ostrobothnia, Finland (10)

1. 3.5 Villageshop Veljekset Keskinen (127 reviews)
   - Expensive shopping
   Monday: 9:00 AM - 9:00 PM Spent More than 3 hours Shopping Malls
   
   
   Finland's largest VillageShop is more than just shopping. We want to give more to our customers, which is why there is always something interesting going on in the Village Shop. More than a hundred events, small and large, are organised in the Village Shop area each year. In addition to the events, the front yard of Tavarapuoti called Kesätori (Summer Market) offers cheerful market atmosphere with its sales booths. In the summertime, take a free tour around the VillageShop area in the SummerTrain or play a round of golf in our Minigolf track on the banks of the Tuuri River. See more..
   
2. 3.5 Jari Makii Oy (6 reviews)
   - American cars
   Speciality & Gift Shops
   
   
   Jari Maki Oy is an American Dream middle of Finland. Store is specialized in American Style. Product range consist of Country Western, American style gifts, clothes, toys, delicacy, USA Car products... The Store and its Ranch-milieu gives a exciting and interesting image of The America in the Middle of Finnish Country Side. See also our American Car Museum! See more..
   
3. 3.5 Karma (6 reviews)
   - Dancing and karaoke place
   Bars & Clubs
   
   
   It is a quite average club, when we visited, there were two young DJs playing international music, it was all right. See more..
   
4. 3.5 Muistojen kappeli (Chapel of remembrance) (2 reviews)
   - A silent break in a small town centre
   Cemeteries
   
   
   Walk the well maintained sandy paths and wonder the graves of past generations. Highlight is a cannon pipe from year 1808-1809 war that is turned an obelisk to remember a fight that happened in August 1808 nearby bridge in Alavus. Also the chapel is charmful with it´s glass paintings. See more..
   
5. 3.5 Taidekeskus Harri (2 reviews)
   - Nice place, good beach and views
   Monday: Spent 1-2 hours Military Museums • Art Galleries • Art Museums
   
   
   The Art Centre Harri is a diverse exhibition house in the middle of a beautiful lake view. We arrange changing art exhibitions and fascinating collector's item exhibitions in summer season. In winter we are open by appointment. Exhibition season 2018 3.-26.5. South Ostrobothnian cartoonists 5.6.-29.7. Oil paintings by Finnish actress Tuija Piepponen 4.-31.8. Printmaking society of Seinäjoki 3.5.-31.8. Barbie-doll exhibition We also have permanent exhibitions: local painter Matti Annala's memorial exhibition, composer Toivo Kuula room, collection of 500 Arabia milk jugs and the tradition room of the Finnish war veterans. See more..
   
6. 3.0 Sotavanhuksen Museo (2 reviews)
   - A small museum, local history
   Spent 1-2 hours Speciality Museums
   
   
   A local museum designed in an old storage building of 19th century next to an old clocktower and church. The museum is named after a character "An old soldier" who is a figure in Finnish national poet´s, J.L.Runeberg´s long poem in a poem antology called "Vänrikki Stoolin tarinat" (Stories of lieutenant Stål), part I published 1848 by J.L.Runeberg and part II 1860. In the poem the retired soldier is remembering events of August 1808 in Alavus.The clocktower from year 1845 and the church next to the museum are also worth of visit and why not to walk 300m east, down to the riverfront and along a path to the chapel area related to 1808 events. See more..
   
7. 3.0 Kauhava Church (1 review)
   - A church in red brick and gray granite
   Churches & Cathedrals
   
   
   I was with the Esse Hembygdssällskap on a trip to Kauhava, where we visited the beautiful Kauhava Church. Kauhava Church is a neo-Gothic , tower-like long church in Kauhava . The church was designed by architect Josef Stenbäck . The church accommodates 950 people. The church was built of red brick and gray granite between 1923 and 1925 and was inaugurated on October 4, 1925. The formerly existing wooden church of 1756 was burnt down in 1921. See more..
   
8. 3.0 Suomen Jaakarimuseo (1 review)
   - A Jaeger Museum
   Spent 1-2 hours Speciality Museums
   
   
   During the first world war almost 2000 finnish young men travelled to Germany to get military education. The Finnish Jaegermuseum tells about the impact they had in the fight for the finnish independence from the russian empire in 1917-1918. In the museum you see military equipment and the jaegers´ personal belongings. See more..
   
9. 3.0 Kurikan kirkko (1 review)
   Churches & Cathedrals
   
   
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10. 3.0 Epstori (1 review)
    Spent 1-2 hours Shopping Malls
    
    
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