After Berlin and Amsterdam - Pernaja (Pernå in Swedish), now a part of Loviisa, was the object of our excursion. We visited Pernaja Church, built in the first half of the fifteenth century, and Malmgård manor, where count Johan Creutz gave us a guided tour of the house and the brewery.

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The Pernaja church from the south

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The vaulted roof

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The font where Mikael Agricola is said to have been baptized

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The present main building of Malmgård manor (1882-85), still largely a farm producing organic spelt and and emmer wheat.

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Malmgård Brewery has produced ales since 2009

And of course there was a farm shop...