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In the Footsteps of the Vikings
History and Travel Portal
Travel trough the Europe following the ancient Vikings' routes!
Look at the MAP!
Find your town in the map and use the link to go straight to the location!
About...
Viking game and history travel portal:
The Vikings once travelled in wide areas of Europe, Asia, and even America. So more and more cities and municipalities will be shown in FoVi portal by the time. Enjoy travelling In the Footsteps of the Vikings! It's free thanks to our sponsors. The viking learning game will be released spring 2012.
VIKING HISTORY ARCHAEOLOGY TRAVEL GAME PROJECT
LOVIISA TOWN, FINLAND, SPONSORING FOVIGAME
City of Loviisa Official Fovi Project Sponsor
City of Loviisa and Terafox signed an agreement 05.04.2012, according to which Loviisa will sponsor FoVi project, including its constituent “In the Footsteps of the Vikings” portal and coming “Fovigame” learning game.
We are very happy to be able to get support for our venture from our hometown. Connections with the town of Loviisa have been very tight, constantly, when developing the project, and we have received good feedback all the time.
Communication was initiated as early as 2009, before the unification of municipalities in the environment of Loviisa for a new city of Loviisa. Originally, as main negotiators were former development director of Loviisa and Ruotsinpyhtää former mayor Risto Nieminen, and Loviisa tourism secretary Lilian Granberg, who is now on maternity leave. In their place came in early 2012 Sten Frondén, development director, formerly the mayor of Liljendal and the Loviisa basic services director, and the tourism secretary Johanna Waltonen, who are quickly and efficiently involved in the project.
Loviisa town may not be famous of the Viking tourist attractions, but some of the memories of the era are though to be found here. We’ll present them in the future in more detail at the renewable Loviisa page and also in the future in a separate article, which tells about an archaeological exhibition in Loviisa museum. The exhibition is open in summer 2012.
The new page of City of Loviisa will serve as a model for other cities in the future. In this context, great thanks to Grindavik and Hafnarfjordur in Iceland for their activity! We look forward to get materials about other cities, especially in Iceland, demonstrating their interest.
In the photo, Loviisa Development Director Sten Frondén (left) and Terafox Managing Director Kai Kurki-Suonio.
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NEWS:
2012-09-18
Multi-language support by Google Translate removed, at least temporarily.
2012-05-04
Loviisa sponsors Fovigame. An agreement signed.
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2012-05-02
New news available! Look at the left beneath!
A Viking Treasure found in Gotland, Sweden
A bronze vase, with thousands of silver coins, has been found in Gotland island, outside the east coast of Sweden. The treasure is exceptionally large for its age. Archaeologists consider whether it was ment to be a safety deposit or perhaps a purse for the afterlife. More...
BEAR TOOTH - an Archaeological Exhibition in the Museum of Loviisa, Finland
The museum's prehistoric exhibition is open from April 22 to September 30, 2012, and presents Loviisa region Stone Age and Iron Age discoveries as well as dwellings. The exhibition includes tools, arrowheads, jewelry and ceramics.
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