Kumlinge

Kumlinge is an island parish in the northern archipelago of Åland, reached by the archipelago ferries from Hummelvik and Långnäs. Its treasure is the Church of St. Anne, a fieldstone church from the end of the Middle Ages whose walls and vaults are covered in paintings in the Franciscan style, among the finest of their kind in all of Finland. A wooden bell tower stands beside it. Around the church the island is farmland, juniper and bare rock, crossed by quiet roads that suit a bicycle. It is a stop on the archipelago route that crosses to mainland Finland.