Unikeonpäivä - Sleepy Head Day Festival
Every 27 July the small seaside town of Naantali throws a celebrity 'Sleepy Head of the Year' into the Baltic Sea at 7 am, followed by a market, parade and cake competition rooted in centuries-old Finnish calendar custom.
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"An outdoor late-summer music festival held in Kirkkopuisto beside the medieval Naantali Abbey, drawing local and Finnish artists to this small medieval harbour town at the end of the summer season."
Naantali Sunfest
"One of Finland's grand touring international markets pitches up in small Hanseatic Rauma, bringing vendors from over 30 countries to the edges of its UNESCO-listed medieval old town for four days of food, craft and produce."
Rauma Kansainväliset Suurmarkkinat
"A week-long woodwind and chamber music festival held in the historic coastal town of Uusikaupunki, celebrating the legacy of Finnish-born clarinet virtuoso Bernhard Henrik Crusell with concerts in intimate seaside venues."
Crusell Music Festival
"A one-day outdoor jazz festival held in the church park of Laitila, a small agricultural market town in Southwest Finland, bringing quality jazz to a distinctly rural summer setting."
Jazzkukko Festivaali
"Set on the remote island of Rosala in the outer Kimitoön archipelago, this annual Viking market brings costumed traders, craftspeople and warriors to one of the oldest documented Norse settlement sites on the Finnish coast."
Vikingadagar Rosala