GUIDE SUMMER 2012 | Sightseeing & Events
TOURIST ATTRACTIONS The Lahti region is full of wonderful sights and places you should visit. Globally renown SPORTS CENTRE is the heart of the Salpausselkä Ski Games. The Sports Cen tre includes ski jumps, a skiing stadium, Restau rant Voitto, a large event hall, a trade fair hall, Lahti Hall, an ice stadium, the Ski Museum, a central sports field and an area for biathlon. In the the summertime they are used as mountain biking and outdoor exercising routes. The sight seeing platform on top of the tallest ski jump is open on weekdays from 10–17 and during weekends from 11–17. MUSEUMS IN HEINOLA There are several inter esting museums in Heinola. The Heinola Town Museum offers its visitors local history, interiors from a 19th century bourgeois home, a med al and coin collection, the Anja Juurikkala ce ramics collection and themed exhibitions. The Heinola Art Museum is located in an Empire
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style building built in the 1820s with the original ceiling paintings still intact. There is an Empirestyle bookcase housing the library of Minister P.J. Hynninen Art Foundation at the museum. In the WPK-talo close by, there is Gallery Lam bert where exhibitions are arranged in the sum mertime. Opened in 2000, Congress and Concert Cen tre SIBELIUS HALL is the largest public wood en building built in Finland in the past hundred years. The concert hall has unique acoustics. The hall seats 1,250 people, and it is the venue for both classical and contemporary concerts. For additional information and house tour res ervations, please call +358 (0)3 814 2811. CHURCH OF THE CROSS designed by acad emician Alvar Aalto is the main church in the City of Lahti. Built in 1978, the simplified church's exterior face opening to the market place is dominated by a large cross consisting of 52 windows, one for each week of the year. The Church Park includes Wäinö Aaltonen's sculpture Vapauden hengetär (Spirit of Free dom). Tel. +358 (0)3 891 290 or 89 111.