Protected buildingNotable

Porvoon tuomiokapituli

Porvoo

Why visit

Porvoo's former grammar school of 1759 is a baroque-classicist stone building designed by Samuel Berner, who came from Turku to Uusimaa - and it survives much as it first stood.

Look for: Note the rusticated treatment of the central ground floor and corner pilasters, along with the broken roof and windows of sixteen to twenty panes.

About this site

The former gymnasium building in Porvoo from the year 1759. The two-storey Baroque-classicist stone building was designed by Samuel Berner, who moved from Turku to Uusimaa. The building has a mansard roof and windows with 16–20 panes. The central section of the ground floor has rusticated treatment, as do the corner pilasters. The former gymnasium has been preserved in fairly original condition.

Official description (Museovirasto), machine-translated from Finnish