If you continue farther from the city centre along the nature trails, you will reach another well-known area of giant boulders, Virvik’s Giant. It is a huge glacial erratic on the Virvik nature trail, split by a narrow vertical crevice that hikers can walk through; this photo shows not that particular boulder, but one of the other large erratics in the area. According to old folklore, a giant hurled the rock there. The tale tells of a sleepy giant who grew furious about the construction of the cathedral and the clanging of its bells on the opposite shore and tried to demolish the church with a massive boulder – but the rock landed on this side of the river, on Näsinmäki hill in Porvoo-
