Lahti (Lahden). A Voyage To Lahti, Finland (Suomi) - Europe


One of Finland's major winter-sports centres, Lahti is a modern town close 100km northward of Helsinki.
 It's a proficient house to larn if you're interested inwards skiing, with a proficient museum on the sport, with the city's frighteningly high ski jumps.

 Lahti has hosted several globe championships, most lately inwards 2001.

Founded inwards 1905, the metropolis isn't hugely interesting inwards other respects, too lacks anything that could endure called an 'old town'.




Most of the
downtown area, inwards fact, consists of a serial of linked shopping centres. The 10, 000 Karelian refugees who arrived later WWII convey contributed their entrepreneurial spirit to what the locals telephone telephone the 'Business City'. Lahti does brand a proficient base of operations for visiting nearby attractions.

Its place past times Vesijärvi (which is connected to Lake Päijänne) makes it the obvious house to showtime a ferry trip to Jyväskylä.

One of the largest lakes inwards Finland, Päijänne provides Helsinki with tap water.
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