Show 9 s e M I-i I Historic ic Buildings in Finnish Town of o Turku Turku was Finland's first capital Christianity was first there and the first Christian converts concerts were baptized In the River Aura The oldest old old- oldest est cst cn cathedral and oud the oldest castle In Finland are to he found In Turku and nearly all nil the historic homes of the Finnish nobility are In or near the city y With the exception of the cathedral and the castle modern Turku has hus been built since dace the disastrous tire fire of 1 1327 7 when the old town was almost entirely d destroyed lrI In n a blaze that hut tied tar tor live five days s Both bath the castle and the Ilse cathedral ore are grim structures structure with Leith little exterior ornament The cathedral ca en th thedral II has bus a 0 long narrow vaulted c Interior Inferior und and most of t the e Immense treasure which was once kept there has hns disappeared red Part Purt of ut the castle Is now DOW a n museum and Is furnished with pieces of old Finnish furniture Visitors can still see the thc dungeon sl six fathoms deep 11 and nd black us as pi pitch eh w where here prisoners were kept In the great l' l central troll hall Is IR a high gallery from imam which a n cruel ruler once had boil un unruly rill subjects hurled to the float below One cell rell In the fht castle Is still known a U as the tors tor's re resting renting lIn Notional place National Geographic Geo Geographic graphic Society Bulletin Its It's hard hurel for a n woman to forgive another another an o other pr for having Driving done dOlle her bPI n a fJ |