Jarvenpaa tourist information
Järvenpää is located in the Helsinki Region, along the Helsinki-Lahti freeway, a 30-minute drive from downtown Helsinki, and at the same time along the main railway line to the north. It takes 20 minutes to drive to the international airport.
With a population of 37,000, Järvenpää is a vigourous commercial and industrial city specializing in high technology-oriented metal industry. The city is home to a number of internationally successful companies, such as Metso Paper and Rocla.
Järvenpää is to a great extent a garden city and offers excellent recreational and leisure time opportunities.
Järvenpää is best known as the home town of the master composer Jean Sibelius. Sibelius built his log villa Ainola to be "sufficiently far from the temptations of Helsinki". He and his family lived at Ainola for more than fifty years. The spirit of Jean Sibelius is very much alive at Ainola. The museum, maintained to preserve a home-like atmosphere, is open to public from May to the end of September.
Along the shores of Lake Tuusulanjärvi, a unique community of artists flourished at the turn of the century, led by the nationally famous author Juhani Aho and his painter wife Venny Soldan-Brofeldt. Along with Jean Sibelius, this influential group included the poets J.H. Erkko and Eino Leino as well as painters Eero Järnefelt and Pekka Halonen.
Sufficiently far, yet suitably close, Järvenpää has developed into a richly diversified city with its own strong cultural traditions. Järvenpää’s Culture Trail links Sibelius’s Ainola with Juhani Aho’s Ahola. Paintings produced by some of the most important members of the golden era of Finnish art, such as Eero Järnefelt and Venny Soldan-Brofeldt, are at the Järvenpää Art Museum.
Järvenpää Hall, the cultural centre of the city, has become one of the most popular concert venues in the Helsinki Region. Järvenpää Hall serves also as a high quality conference centre.
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