Lappo

Lappo, or Lapua, lies among the broad fields of southern Ostrobothnia. Permanent settlement here reaches back to the fourteenth century, and Lapua became an independent parish in 1581. Farming sustained its inhabitants, while tar burning grew in importance in the seventeenth century. In 1808 Swedish and Russian troops fought at Lapua during the Finnish War; a new church designed by Carl Ludvig Engel was completed in 1827.