Today I wanted to try a new swimming hall, and ended up driving all the way to Porvoo, an hour away from where I live. Porvoo is of course a wonderful historic city with wooden houses alongside the river banks. Their swimming hall was constructed in the 1970s probably, but then more recently expanded.
The hall as two different sides, the new (lower level dressing rooms) and old (2nd floor dressing rooms). Both sides have saunas, in the new there's a Finnish sauna and a steam sauna, and in the old one there's two smaller Finnish saunas and a steam sauna.
Their main pool is a 25-meter one, but there's also:
The official home page of the swimming hall is here.
Much recommended!
I just have outside pictures:
Then the entrance (at the top of this article, and below):
For more sauna and swimming stories, check out planetswimmer.com and saunablogger.cool websites! And of course the Planetcaver, and
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