Nastola
Template:Infobox Finnish former municipality Nastola is a former municipality of Finland. It was merged to the city of Lahti on 1 January 2016.[1]
It is located in the province of Southern Finland and is part of the Päijät-Häme region. The municipality had a population of 14,905 (30 June 2015)[2] and covered an area of 382.86 km2 (147.82 sq mi) of which 38.67 km2 (14.93 sq mi) was water.[3] The population density was 45.9761/km2 (119.078/sq mi). Nastola is located between two major cities: Lahti and Kouvola.
The municipality was unilingually Finnish.
List of villages
Arrajoki, Immilä, Koiskala, Lankila, Pyhäntaka, Ruuhijärvi, Uusikylä, Vanaja, Villähde, Kirkonkylä, Rakokivi, Seesta- Luhtaanmaa, Järvinen, Tapiola.
Attractions[4]
- Pajulahti, a sports institute and a leisure center
- Anni Kaste Memorial stone
- Defenders of the home country memorial stone
- Nastola cemetery
- German memorial
- King's Ridge observation tower
- King's fountain
- Ruuhijärvi cultural landscape
- Mountain Troll's observation tower
- Engel's storehouse
- Immilä mill
- Nastola church
- Nastola history museum
- Taarasti art centre
Notable people from Nastola
- Adelaïde Ehrnrooth, feminist author
- Elsi Borg, architect
- Valtteri Bottas, Formula 1 driver
- Veli-Matti Lindström, ski jumper
References
- ^ Ojansivu, Merja (25 January 2015). "Lahti ja Nastola yhdistyvät ensi vuoden alusta". Helsingin Sanomat (in Finnish). Helsinki: Sanoma Media Finland Oy. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
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External links
Media related to Nastola at Wikimedia Commons- Municipality of Nastola – Official website Template:Fi icon
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