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In Kerimäki, about a 15-minute walk from downtown, has an exhibition on
military history entitled ”At the last line”. The exhibition is owned and run
by the Herttua Hotel. The hotel yard has fortifications that were part of the Salpa
Line and that have partially been restored. The Salpa Line was
built from 1940 to 1944 as a defence line for eastern Finland. At the time, it
was the largest construction site in the history of the country. It also had
bunkers as living quarters, machine-gun nests, gun emplacements and 350 km of
trenches.
In addition to fortifications, the exhibition contains guns and a tank located
in the yard and two exhibition rooms indoors. One of the rooms displays
wartime equipment and military events using maps, photographs and artefacts.
The other room shows the impact war had on the civilian population. It has
Finnish goods and utility items from the era of the Great Depression.
The hotel has extensive services.
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