{"id":32361,"date":"2025-03-18T18:57:48","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T16:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.teehelmi.fi\/history-of-loviisan-kappeli\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T11:38:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T08:38:15","slug":"history-of-loviisan-kappeli","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.teehelmi.fi\/en\/loviisan-kappeli\/history-of-loviisan-kappeli\/","title":{"rendered":"History of Loviisan Kappeli"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Built in the reign of Alexander III to its full splendour, the Chapel served the guests of the then Loviisa Spa, offering a place to relax with punch and health waters on its open-air terrace. The gentry strolled through the beautiful park.<\/p>

The park with its fountains is a remnant of the planned Loviisa Fortress, which was planned as Finland’s easternmost defence after Hamina was ceded to Russia at the Peace of Turku. The park still has earthen ponds and the existing pond as a moat. Other parts of the fortress in Loviisa include the Ungern and Rosen bastions and the Svartholma sea fortress, the Komendant’s house next to the chapel, which now houses the Loviisa Museum, and the barracks.<\/p>

Like the city of Loviisa, the chapel’s heyday was in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when German and Russian tourists, among others, were attracted to the Loviisa Spa and found accommodation in the homes of Loviisa residents. During the day, spa guests enjoyed treatments and in the evening they ate, drank and partied in the Chapel. The word Kappeli apparently comes from the Swedish word kapellet, meaning a band.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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