Finland
SMOKED FISH
KEMI: GATEWAY TO LAPLAND Charming Kemi is a new port of call for Regent Seven Seas Cruises® . Situated on the Gulf of Bothnia near the Swedish border, it is approximately 708 kilometres north of Helsinki and 91 kilometres south of the Arctic Circle. It is best-known as the home of Lumilinna (Kemi Snow Castle), the largest snow structure in the world that’s open year-round and features a restaurant serving traditional Finnish cuisine like smoked fish, reindeer and cloudberry, a chapel, art exhibitions and more. At Sisäsatama, Kemi’s ‘Inner Old Harbour’, learn about the Lapland region’s seafaring history on a tour of the historic Icebreaker Sampo before visiting the Smoke Hut of Yli-Jaakheikki, a restored fisherman’s dwelling built in a village near Rovaniemi in 1796.
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