Turku - Swedish University

(Local Name: Åbo Akademi) Immediately southwest of the Academy in Turku, at the corner of Uudenmaankatu, is the Swedish University (Åbo Akademi), opened in 1919. In the gardens in front of the building can be seen a bronze statue (by W. Runeberg, 1888) of Per Brahe, Swedish governor of Finland 1637-40 and 1648-54; on the base is the inscription "Jagh war med landett, och landett med mig wääl tillfreds" ("I was well satisfied with the country, and the country with me".