The best city hikes and walks in Selkämeren Kansallispuisto

Villa Tallbo was built as a family home by shipowner Gabriel Granlund during the heyday of maritime trade. Afterward, it was repeatedly sold, mostly out of necessity to raise money. Today, it is the only surviving villa of this size left in Finland.

The Old Town Hall houses many of the Rauma Museum's exhibitions. The Kistupuad museum shop is also located there. The old town hall was built in 1776. The ground floor served as a police station, the upper floor was reserved for the city administration. The old town hall has served as a museum since 1902. There are only two 18th-century town halls left in Finland, one in Rauma and the other in Porvoo.

Wonderful little park on the waterfront with a great view of the "modern" Rauma.

The Keskustelupuisto is a contemporary art project of the Lönnström Art Museum in Raumas Kalliokatu. The project by the artist duo Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen involved 21 people from Rauma, who together created a park on an empty and bushy plot of land. The cozy Conversation Park is a unique and personal park with numerous details, from plantings to a stick horse stable.

The Rauma Maritime Museum is the most modern maritime museum in Finland and offers many opportunities to study maritime history. A comprehensive collection of museum items has been assembled. The collection includes parts of wrecks, ships built by Finnish shipyards, historical items such as sailors' books and other papers. The museum also allows visitors to get hands-on experience of piloting a ship as there is a ship simulator called Jenny.

Marela is the local museum of a wealthy shipping family. It shows the family's life in the early 1900s. Marela also hosts several temporary exhibitions of the Rauma Museum. Marela was owned by the Granlund family from the 1870s until 1906. Original Granlund-era furnishings include decorative Marela tiled stoves, doors, ceiling paintings and paneling. Marela has been a museum since 1982.

The Church of the Holy Cross has a rich history dating back to the 15th century. It was originally built as a monastery church of the Franciscan monastery Rauma. While the exact age of the church remains unknown, historians believe that the current stone church was completed between 1515 and 1520. An interesting fact about the Church of the Holy Cross is that it served as a Lutheran church after the dissolution of the Franciscan monastery during the Swedish Reformation. It became the main church of Rauma Parish in 1640 when the nearby Holy Trinity Church was destroyed by fire.

Rauma is located on the Gulf of Botnia and is one of the oldest ports in Finland. Built around a Franciscan monastery and home to the mid-15th century Church of the Holy Cross, the town is an outstanding example of an ancient Nordic town built from wood. Although it was devastated by fire in the late 17th century, it has retained its ancient architectural heritage.