Nykarleby • Uusikaarlepyy

Nykarleby Tourist Information, Topeliusesplanaden 7, 66900 Nykarleby
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Welcome to Nykarleby, a little town at its best an idyllic small town at the mouth of the Lapuanjoki River. The town was established in 1620 by the Swedish King Gustavus Adolphus to promote the trade of the region. Uusikaarlepyy is also the hometown of the writer Zacharias Topelius, popularly called the “fairy-tale uncle of Finland”. That is why the town bears the nickname “fairy-tale town”. The town offers the whole family a lot to see and to experience ranging from the idyllic old town milieu to the beautiful surrounding countryside and the archipelago.

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Kuddnäs the childhood home of author Zacharias Topelius, consists of five well-preserved buildings, forming a prosperous rural estate, dating back to the early 19th century. Since 1934, Kuddnäs has been a museum, open daily during the summer season.
The renovated Jutbacka manor dating from the early 1820s provides banquet and meeting facilities up to 50 persons and a meeting space for a smaller group. Several annual events take place in Nykarleby, for example Finland’s largest car-boot and jumble sale, Juthbackamarknaden, which attracts some 30,000 visitors, and is held in August in the grounds of the Juthbacka manor.
The museum railway line at Kovjoki with a narrow-gauge track. Take a time-trip into the past on the narrow-gauge train pulled by the museum locomotive Emma. 06-722 5180.
Swimming beaches:Toisvesi beach and Storsand beach at Monäs