City of Hancock City Hall
399 Quincy Street
Hancock, MI 49930
906.482.2720
FAX 906.482.7910
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Visit our Sister City
Porvoo is the second
oldest town in Finland and well over 600 years old. Porvoo was given its charter in 1346
by the Swedish King Magnus Eriksson, but even before that the town had developed into a
flourishing trading place, protected by a mighty fortress, near the sea, by the river
flowing down from Hame. The ancient fortress,
which gave the town its name (Borga
"Fortress by the river"), does not exist anymore, but the deep moats that used
to surround it, still remain. Porvoo has, however, inherited from former generations the
old part of the town with its medieval town plan and also the empire-style part planned by
Carl Ludvig Engel in the 1830's.
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