A snow castle rises each winter in Kemi, a northern Finnish town at the top of the Gulf of Bothnia. thisisFINLAND’s slideshow takes you into the castle’s passages, hotel, bar, chapel, sculpture gallery and more.
Each year the town of Kemi witnesses the construction of a castle made of snow. In an idea that was brought to life for the first time in 1996, the fortress is built on the coast, with a new floor plan and different towers each time. The ice for the furnishings and decorations is pulled from the Gulf of Bothnia, the northernmost area of the Baltic Sea.
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