Traveling by car for approximately 45 minutes you reach the historic town of porvoo which first became a shipping port during the 1300s it soon was hometo a bustling community of tradesmen who builta colorful wooden town around the water ways today these wooden buildings remain under protected status but many are still private residences some to the same families that founded porvoo finnish people travel to porvoo for a day by the water to travel by boat and stop atone of the numerous