April 2: Hämeen Linna 2

More from the castle.

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Harmonizing within this excellently reverberant room.

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A mysterious passage.

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The courtyard from the balcony.

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And from the other side.

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At points I really wanted to live in the castle. The beauty of these window seats and hearth contributed to this.

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More carved spaces.

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And another.

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The window that the light is coming through is so small that the light almost seems to be coming from a point source.

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The stair in the museum-exhibition part of the castle.

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A fortuitous moment.

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Lots of light for such small windows.

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A view toward town.

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A classroom, with the world's highest concentration of window seats.

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The outside wall.

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A look back as we approached town again.