Loviisa Kappeli

Restaurant Loviisa Kappeli from the 1800s. In the middle of a charming English-style park, you can enjoy yourself like the spa guests did in the late 1800s.

Alexander III's reign built the Kappeli and it served the Loviisa Spa guests offering a place to relax with punch and health water after activities. Elite made themselves seen in the beautiful surrounding park.

The park with fountains is a relic of the Loviisa fortress, which was designed for defence when town of Hamina (in east coast) was transferred to the imperial Russia. In the park there is still moats and a pond with fountain. You can find other parts of the fortress in Loviisa.  There's the bastions Ungern and Rosen (fortification system which was developed in Italy), maritime fortress Svartholma, Commandant's house (which now serves as a museum), as well as the Loviisa barracks.

Loviisa Kappeli was the splendor of the town of Loviisa in the late 1800s and early 1900s, when Germans and Russians used the services of the Spa town. The word Kappeli comes apparently from the Swedish Kapellet-word, meaning the Band.

This Kappeli restaurant and park is about 200m from us. Everything is so near in a small town.