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Rimmin nähtävyyksiä

Rimpi
What to see

The Lapinsärkkä graveyard
Before the border was closed in the 1920s, Rimpi buried its dead in Akonlahti. When this was no longer possible, the village established its own Orthodox graveyard.

Gold Well or Gold Spring
Mention is made as early as 1789, in Christfrid Ganader's Mythologica Fennica, of a "Gold Well" whose waters flow into both the Gulf of Bothnia and the White Sea. The spring has a number of underground "fountains" which constantly shift the sand at the bottom. According to Rimpi tradition, anyone who eats a frog found in the well will receive a golden treasure.

Water mill
There is a restored water mill along the river that has its source in the gold spring.

The Juortana house
In the account of his fourth field trip, Lönnrot wrote: "I intend to finish this account of my journey here in Juortana, and I have a very good reason, indeed. When I arrived here, I noticed that the sole of my boot was wholly worn out."