Finland is a country with a special way of life, original culture, unusual and very interesting traditions, advanced developments in the field of modern high technologies, and most importantly with stunning beauty of nature. And all the best of the above advantages of this country is concentrated in the city of Espoo. It is less than twenty kilometers from Helsinki and is its satellite city
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How to get there
There is a railway station in Espoo, and there are modern highways to it, which have regular bus services to all nearby cities, including Helsinki. And with some European cities there is a ferry service.
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A bit of history
The first settlements in the territory of modern Espoo appeared around the middle of the 14th century, were the Swedes who were engaged in agricultural activities and trade, the Finns, who were then here in the minority, provided their families with hunting. And in the 16th century the Swedish monarch ordered to build a royal residence here
But, despite its fairly long history, the status of the city of Espoo was awarded only in 1972, although the official date of its founding is 1458, it was then that the ancient cathedral was built, which had a certain circle of parishioners
Climate
| Average monthly temperature, ° C | ||||||||||||
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | aug | sen | ok | nov | dec | |
| by day | - 3 | - 3 | + 0 | + 6 | + 13 | + 18 | + 21 | + 20 | + 15 | + 8 | + 2 | + 0 |
| at night | - 8 | - 9 @@ | @ -6 | + 0 | + 4 | + 9 | + 12 | + 11 | + 7 | + 2 | - 1 | - 4 |
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| Original Sokos Hotel Tapiola Garden Espoo from 4 825 rub Espoo Tapionaukio 3 | Radisson Blu Hotel Espoo from 4 549 rubles Espoo Otaranta 2 | Hotel Hanasaari from 5 859 rubles Espoo Hanasaarenranta 5 |
| Hellsten Espoo from 4,342 rubles Espoo Porarinkatu 3 | Hotel Korpilampi from 4 067 rubles Espoo Korpilammentie 5 | Hotel Kuninkaantie from 4 273 rubles Espoo Lakelankatu 1 |
| Forenom Kivimies from 5,445 rubles Espoo Kivimiehentie 2 | Solvalla Sports Institute from 4,273 rubles Espoo Nuuksiontie 82 |
Entertainment, excursions and attractions Espoo
Historically monuments in Espoo is very small, this incredibly modern city, which mostly consists of numerous houses in the national style and distinctive office buildings. More recently, modern skyscrapers and business centers have been erected here, but today the city is developing at a rapid pace. It has turned into the main educational, scientific, technical and business center of the country with the highest standard of living.
Espoo has offices of the largest Finnish companies and the main Finnish representative offices of large international corporations. The offices of all these economic giants are located on the peninsula of Keilaniemi, so he received another unspoken title, "The Coast of Billionaires."
Finns, like all Europeans, take care of nature very carefully and responsibly, the most vivid confirmation is the one designed in the middle of the last century "Green" town of Tapiolu. Here everything is done in accordance with the most advanced energy-saving technologies, from environmental materials that do not pollute the environment. There are numerous shopping and entertainment centers, cinemas, restaurants and coffee houses in Topiola.
In general, Topiola is considered one of the most ambitious and productive centers for the development and application of high technologies in the entire Northern European region . But not offices, research centers and modern production complexes attract hundreds of thousands of tourists annually to the city . One of the main treasures of Espoo is its unsurpassed nature, on the one hand, the city is surrounded by almost untouched forests, which are the protected territory of the National Park "Nuuksio", and on the other hand it is approached by the Finnish aliv .
Here you can fully relax in the environment of a truly unique nature, in summer you can walk or bike in the forest, full roes, wolverines and flying squirrels, representatives of the Red Book, climbing or sport fishing. In winter, the city turns into a center for skiing and skiing.
It's exciting to spend time, and if you're lucky, you can also get rich fabulously at one of the biggest hippodromes of the country - Vermo. In addition, the city has a lot of first-class shopping and entertainment complexes of European level - "Cello" (the largest in the country), "Iso Omena", "Sapena" and many others.
Espoo Museum
But for cultural rest in Espoo created the best conditions, there is the Clock Museum, the center where international conferences of different levels "Dipoli", "Espoo Cultural Center", the "Otso" gallery and the memorial house of the famous Finnish painter Atmosphere Tarvaspaa are held, as well as the museum-estate " Glims, illustrating the history and life of Finnish peasants
Aquapark
One of the favorite vacation spots and tourists and locals is the huge aqua park "Serena", famous for its technical excellence and variety of water entertainment far beyond Finland. During the summer months and the school holidays period, it is open daily, in the autumn winter period, "Serena" receives guests only on Saturday and Sunday. Pools with waves, saunas carved into original caves, children's saunas are not the most original attractions of the water park. Photo Espoo (16)