Alatornio Church

Eighteenth-century church tied to the UNESCO-listed Struve Geodetic Arc.

Alatornio Church is the strongest historic sight in Tornio. Completed in 1797, it became one of the survey points in the Struve Geodetic Arc, the 19th-century measurement chain that helped calculate the shape of the Earth and is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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