Marketplaces are full of tasty discoveries and provide a glimpse of the local lifestyle at its most authentic. The air is filled with chatter, tables are full of local produce and traditional delicacies will make your mouth water. If you want to try a famous ‘posso’, piggy-shaped flat doughnut with apple marmalade filling, you’ll have to hurry – because they’ll be all gone by noon!
Kotka market square is a lively place for business. You can buy food, enjoy the meat pies and ‘posso’ doughnuts sold in the cafés, and above all soak in the atmosphere.
Hamina has a very traditional marketplace, which is Finland’s largest by area. It is also a former field used for ‘pesäpallo’, the Finnish variety of baseball. Can you find all the bases?
The Karhula marketplace brings together locals for shopping on Wednesdays and Saturdays. You can buy bread, fish, meat, vegetables, flowers and bakery products at the market – and yes, also ‘posso’ doughnuts, the flat, piggy-shaped delicacies known throughout the country!