Järvenpää

Järvenpää
Järvenpää
	— Municipality an toun —
Järvenpään kaupunki
	Sibeliuksenkatu (Sibelius' street)
	; Coat o airms
	; Coat o airms
	Location o Järvenpää in Finland
	Coordinates: 60°28.5′N 025°05.5′E / 60.475°N 25.0917°E
Kintra	Finland
Region	Uusimaa
Sub-region	Helsinki sub-region
Chairter	1951
Ceety richts	1967
	Govrenment
- Toun manager	Erkki Kukkonen
	Aurie(2011-01-01)
- Tot	39.94 km2 (15.4 sq mi)
- Laund	37.55 km2 (14.5 sq mi)
- Watter	2.39 km2 (0.9 sq mi)
Aurie rank	333rd lairgest in Finland
	Indwallers (2012-09-30)
- Tot	39,457
- Rank	27t lairgest in Finland
- Densitie	0/km2 (0/sq mi)
	Population bi native leid
- Finnish	96.5% (official)
- Swadish	0.9%
- Ithers	2.6%
Time zone	EET (UTC+2)
- Simmer (DST)	EEST (UTC+3)
Municipal tax rate	19%
Wabsteid	www.jarvenpaa.fi

Järvenpää (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈjærʋemˌpæː]; Swadish: Träskända‎) is a toun an municipality o Finland.

Table o contents

1 History
2 Geography
3 Traffic
4 Cultur
- 4.1 Events
5 Neebourheids
6 Internaitional relations
- 6.1 Twin touns — Sister ceeties
7 References
8 Freemit airtins

History[edit]

Järvenpää wis separatit frae its parent community Tuusula in 1951. Järvenpää wis grantit the status o a mercat toun (kauppala) efter the separation. Neighbourin destricts Kellokoski an Nummenkylä wur no addit tae the municipality o Järvenpää an the controversy ower the issue still raises blood pressur fifty years later. In the event, Kellokoski remained pairt o the municipality o Tuusula. Järvenpää wis grantit full legal toun (kaupunki) status in 1967.

Geography[edit]

Järvenpää is locatit on the Helsinki–Riihimäki railway track, some 37 kilometres (23 mi) north o Helsinki. Neighbourin ceeties are Tuusula, Sipoo an Mäntsälä. People an aw refer tae Kerava as Järvenpää's neighbour, even though they dae no technically share a border, thanks tae the ane kilometre-wide land aurie that belangs tae Tuusula.

Traffic[edit]

The railroad goes through the ceety centre. In addition tae the main railway station, there are Kyrölä, Saunakallio, Haarajoki an Purola railway stations.

The trip tae Helsinki takes aboot hauf an oor, whether bi rail or road, an tae the airport o Helsinki-Vantaa aboot 20 minutes. Train connections tae the caipital are guid. Uusimaa's trains leave the main station twice an oor (xx:14 an xx:41), an frae ither stations ance an oor.^[5]

Cultur[edit]

Järvenpää railway station

Helsingintie

Järvenpää is widely kent as the location o Ainola, the hame o the composer Jean Sibelius. It is steid aboot twa kilometers sooth o the ceety centre. The composer moved with his family tae the cottage designed by Lars Sonck on September 24, 1904, an he livit there till his daith in 1957. Ainola is open for visitors in the simmer months as the "museum o Sibelius".

Juhani Aho muivit wi his wife Venny Soldan-Brofeldt tae Järvenpää in 1897. They livit for fowerteen years in a villa, cried Vårbacka, next tae the shore o Lake Tuusula. The villa wis later cried Ahola.

Events[edit]

Events are held in the Järvenpää-talo (lit. Järvenpää-house) throughoot the year: concerts, theatre an airt-shows. The favorite-place o childer is Pikku-Aino's hame, where childer can play, mak shows an so on.

There is a muisical event, which is arrangit ivery year, cried Puistoblues (lit. Park Blues). "Blues-week" stairts frae the "Blues street" o the ceety centre, an concerts an informal sessions are arrangit in bars an restaurants. The main concert is at the end o Blues-week, an is arrangit in Vanhankylänniemi on Seturday.