Some terrible news that Porvoo Cathedral had a major fire at the weekend (via). It was a beautiful 13th Century part stone part timber Cathedral. So a couple of fires in major Finnish buildings within the space of a couple of weeks, accident or deliberate, its pretty suspicious? But while Makasiinit was due for demolition the next day anyway, the Porvoo fire is a real loss to the architectural heritage of Finland. Hopefully they can restore it to its former glory. It makes me doubly crazy that I’ve been in Finland almost two years now but never got round to visiting Porvoo yet which is a really beautiful old town, bah!
Updated: with Helsingin sanomat article & photo (Itä-uudenmaan pelastuslaitos) It doesn’t sound as bad as I first thought.