Old Rauma
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How it came to be
Old Rauma, on the Gulf of Bothnia on Finland's west coast, is a town of wooden buildings that survives as a whole. The Church of the Holy Cross stands on the site of a medieval Franciscan monastery. Fires in 1640 and 1682 destroyed much of the town, and most of its buildings date from the 18th and 19th centuries.
The old town has about 600 wooden buildings, most of them single-storey and privately owned. The town hall of 1776 stands on the market square. In the late 19th century wealth from shipping trade led to extensions and Neo-Renaissance decorative panels on the façades.
Because the land is rising, the town now lies about 1.5 km inland from the coast. Home to about 800 people, it was inscribed in 1991.
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