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Jyvaskyla

location_on Finnish Lakeland, Finland
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About Jyvaskyla

Jyvaskyla is a city and region in Finland and in the western piece of the Finnish Lakeland. It is the biggest city in the area of Central Finland and on the Finnish Lakeland. Elias Lonnrot, the compiler of the Finnish national epic, the Kalevala, gave the city the moniker "Athens of Finland". This moniker alludes to the significant part of Jyvaskyla as an instructive focus.

Crafted by the most celebrated Finnish designer Al Aalto can be seen all through the city. The city has the Neste Oil Rally Finland, which is a piece of the World Rally Championship. It is likewise home of the yearly Jyvaskyla Arts Festival. The city has been one of the quickest developing urban areas in Finland amid the twentieth century. In 1940, there were just 8,000 tenants in Jyvaskyla.

As a result of superb associations, Jyvaskyla was a bustling commercial centre even before the main changeless settlements were established in the present downtown area. The foundation of Finland's initial three Finnish-talking schools: the lycee in 1858, the instructors' school in 1863, and the young ladies' school in 1864 turned out to be the most noteworthy strides with respect to later advancement of Jyvaskyla. Instructive administrations turned into the core of the financial development of the city. In 1912 Wilhelm Schauman established a compressed wood process on the shores of Jyvasjarvi.

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