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32 • ÅLANDSPOSTEN FRIMÄRKEN<br />
Eckerö and Sund<br />
All Åland municipalities have soon been featured in the<br />
Åland scenery series. Four municipalities remain and, in<br />
<strong>2010</strong>, Eckerö and Sund get the chance to present themselves.<br />
Eckerö is the westernmost municipality of both<br />
Åland and Finland. From here, the Eckerö Line<br />
ferries depart for Grisslehamn on the Swedish side.<br />
Eckerö is well-known to all philatelists seeing that<br />
this is also where the traditional Postal Boat Race<br />
either departs or finishes.<br />
POST AND CUSTOMS HOUSE<br />
In Eckerö lies the fine old Post and Customs House<br />
from 1828 by the architects Carl Ludvig Engel and<br />
Carlo Bassi. The building is now a popular sight<br />
with a café, an art exhibition and a postal mail route<br />
museum. The Signhildskär island just off the coast<br />
of Eckerö is where, in the beginning of the 1800s,<br />
the Swedish army fought the final battle on the ice,<br />
consequently losing Finland to the Russian Empire.<br />
MANY HOLIDAY VILLAGES<br />
The population of Eckerö is approximately 900 and<br />
tourism is an important source of income. Some<br />
twenty camping sites and holiday villages and almost<br />
as many cafés and restaurants are located here.<br />
STAMP MOTIF FROM DEGERSAND<br />
The Degersand beach in the village of Torp in<br />
southern Eckerö is a popular outing spot for<br />
Ålanders as well as tourists. Degersand, where Andy<br />
Horner took the photo, is the only landscape in<br />
Åland with sand dunes.<br />
CULTURE-HISTORICAL SURROUNDINGS<br />
Sund lies on the eastern side of main Åland,<br />
approximately 20 kilometres from Mariehamn.
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