Visit Kalajoki - brochure

LET THE TALES TAKE YOU ALONG
Take an imaginative stroll through Kalajoki’s old town of Plassi.
Can you see and hear what life was like in the Middle Ages?
Kalajoki came from the sea, and from the sea it has lived.
The log house timber shows its age, but listen as they whisper.
There lived the fisherman’s wife, who always waited
for her husband to return from seal hunting.
That cabin was owned by the widow of a sailor,
whose livelihood came from weaving linen cloth.
Over there lived the sea captain with his wife and children who
earned some extra bread by mending fishermen’s nets.
The children of the sawmill workers played
over there without a worry in the world.
The sawmill owner looks over Plassi from
the fine windows of his manor.
Goods exchanged hands at the Plassi market.
Plassi market was one of its kind in Finland!
Centuries were lived this way.
Until folk heard about the wondrous sea shores of Kalajoki.
They called it the “Northern Riviera” as they set
their picnic blankets down on the sand dunes.
The dunes were also unique in Finland.
Word of “fine sands and the health impacts of sea air” spread quickly.
People arrived in droves for recreation and wellbeing by the sea.
That was a century ago.
Today, Kalajoki still attracts people to experience its wonders.