Punkaharju

Quintessential landscape of Finland - a long, longbelt stukilometrowej hills i. .. often several meterswide isthmus separating the lake and PuruvesiKokonselka Team Great Saimaa.


Because this post-glacial Punkaharju oz, which isa long, curving belt not sometimes high hills. It was created several thousand years ago, when the Scandinavian glacier melting. River flowedunder the ice, depositing sand, gravel, etc.Systematically sediment layer is raised, forcing the water to the melting of ice over them. At the end of the glacier melted, revealing what chartedthe river, which had now form a long hill.Punkaharju runs perpendicular to the long, doubleSalpausselkä Ozu. Perhaps it was once atributary of the ...


For centuries, is a major highway. After him runsone of the most important in Finland, roads and railway lines, linking the coast of Ladoga(ethnically Finnish, occupied more than half acentury by Russia) of the country lying in the center of Jyväskylä.
Punkaharju has about a hundred miles long, butmost interesting is the section betweenKulennoinen and Punkasalmi, where the village is divided oz dim. lake. It is narrow and winding,twisting like a green snake. Its beauty is bestseen from the air, flying over trees, anything.


Punkaharju is a nature reserve. Area residentsbelieve the healthiest place oz in the world. And this is due to the growing on coniferous forestarea, emits a lot of life-giving essential oils. In this respect Punkaharju is perhaps not better than other places covered with a Finnish taiga, but it sure is beautiful. Anyway, we Finns have no doubt; Punkaharju is definitely the most beautiful place on the Finnish Lake District, and perhaps in the whole country. For this reason, the shed is a great tourist attraction. Especially that lies on the route to the fortress Olavinlinna in Savonlinnie, where every year thousands of music lovers flockto the opera festival.


Punkaharju is not only a beautiful nature. It is also the magnificent architecture and art. Retretti Art Center in Punkaharju (village in the middle of the isthmus), presenting contemporary art, housed, among others. w. .. caves. Found in their roomand concert hall. The caves were discovered, moreover, not so long ago. And where granitecaves in the sand? Well developed much earlier,during the geological changes, and then to one thousand years many tens of them covered theglacier and what was after him.