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| | Heritage of timber construction — Virtual Finland |
 | | Though re-clad and painted on several occasions, they still remind the viewer at the level of streets, lots and individual yards of the architectural scale that prevailed in Finland's towns until the middle of the 19th century. |
 | | Such towns include Rauma, which is included on UNESCO's World Heritage List, and Porvoo, Tammisaari, Naantali, Kristiinankaupunki, Uusikaarlepyy, Kokkola and Raahe. |
 | | In the countryside too, perhaps most of all in the province of Ostrobothnia, there are villages and hamlets whose log dwellings and storehouses still bear witness to an older local tradition of building. |
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