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Dear visitor,

Some come for a weekend. Some stay for a lifetime. Either way, this town has a habit of staying with people.

It's the quiet mornings at the harbour. The wooden houses of the old town, a few streets that still follow their sixteenth-century lines. The oaks the town is named after. The feeling that, for a little while, life moves at the pace it was always meant to.

Then summer ends. You take the train back to the city, and somewhere around November the harbour turns into a story you tell.

That's why these pieces exist. Not to turn a town into a logo, but to keep a place close when you can't be there. Something to pull on on a grey Tuesday, and be back by the water for a moment.

Because some places aren't just visited. They become part of us.

Welcome.

Lithograph of Ekenäs in the 1840s by Magnus von Wright: the church tower above the roofs and the bay Hand-drawn 18th-century map titled Staden Eknäs, the old town street by street on its peninsula The guest harbour in Ekenäs on a summer evening, sailing boats along the wooden piers
Ekenäs from the hill, drawn by Magnus von Wright in the 1840s.

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Every piece has two sides. The front says where. The back says what stayed with you. Not a souvenir: a piece of the town you can live in.

Sailing boats along the wooden piers of the Ekenäs guest harbour on a summer evening

Since 1546

Ekenäs means oak headland. The seventh-oldest town in Finland, and still at the water's edge.

The year it began
1546
Oldest town in Finland
7th
Bio Forum, still showing films
1912
The 1790s map of Staden Eknäs
1790s The town, mapped.
Postcard from before 1906: the old bathhouse on Västvallen, by the water
Before 1906 The bathhouse on Västvallen.
The steamship Goonawarra frozen into the harbour at Tammisaari in March 1951, people walking on the ice
1951 Walking out to the ships on the ice.
  1. 1546

    Founded

    Built alongside Helsinki, to trade across the water with Reval, today's Tallinn.

  2. 1500s

    Gamla Stan

    The old town still follows its sixteenth-century streets.

  3. 1650s

    Ekenäs Church

    Raised in stone between the 1650s and the 1670s.

  4. 1790s

    Staden Eknäs

    A surveyor maps the town, street by street.

  5. 1821

    After the fire

    The church is rebuilt in the neoclassical style.

  6. 1840s

    The view from the hill

    Magnus von Wright draws the church above the bay.

  7. 1912

    Bio Forum

    Finland's oldest cinema still showing films.

  8. 1951

    The frozen harbour

    Ships wait out the winter in the ice.

  9. Today

    Collection 001

    The town, made into something you can carry with you.

Ekenäs has travelled.

Not everyone who loves this town lives here. Pieces bought in Ekenäs have since gone home with people all over the world. It stays with them too.

7countries so far, and counting

    Enjoy life, live Ekenäs.

    More on Instagram, @thisisekenas
    • A man in the wave tee sitting on the harbour wall, Ekenäs looks good on you
    • A woman with a bicycle and hydrangeas by an old red windmill
    • A woman on a sailing boat while friends dive into the sea behind her
    • A man in an Ekenäs Finland cap working on a wooden boat, It stays with you
    • The Ekenäs waves left as a tan line on a back on the beach
    • A woman smiling over her shoulder in an Ekenäs Finland cap
    • Summer nights: legs above the water at dusk, an Ekenäs cap floating beside
    • A woman in an Ekenäs cap eating fries in the old town, Enjoy life, live Ekenäs
    • Two people in Ekenäs tees reaching for each other's hands against the sky
    • Four friends running down a grassy hill in Ekenäs hoodies and sweatshirts
    • A man in the Ekenäs Tammisaari since 1546 tee against a red wooden wall
    • Friends on two scooters riding through an old town lane in Ekenäs caps and tees
    • A woman walking to the sea in the Map tee, past a white beach hut
    • Two women and a dog walking down steps in the rain in Ekenäs tee and hoodie

    Join the Ekenäs letters

    A letter from the harbour now and then: the next collection before anyone else, stories from the old town, and word when the first warm evening arrives.

    Not all journeys are measured in kilometres.

    Greetings from Ekenäs

    A question about a size, an order, or where the best coffee in the old town is? Write to us on WhatsApp, or come by on a weekday. We answer like neighbours do.

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