Loppi

Loppi is a municipality South of the Finland, in the area of the Kanta-Häme.

Geography

The commune is crossed by the Moraine of Salpausselkä. The relief is definitely broken there. The oriental party of the commune is hospital. It is there that one finds the three principal villages, Loppi-center (2 400 inhabitants), Launonen and Löyliäinen (each one approximately 1.200 inhabitants). These villages are surrounded by not very fertile fields, mainly reserved for the culture of the Potato for which Loppi is famous in all the country.

The Western part of the municipality is largely unsuitable with agriculture, forest and wild, with many ponds.

Helsinki is located at 75 km of the village centers. Loppi thus does not form strictly speaking part of the agglomeration but is subject to its influence, cash many tourist equipment used the weekend by the inhabitants of the capital, like a ground of Golf, 3.200 houses of holidays, but also a Aérodrome (Räyskälä) equipped with the most important flying school amateur of the country.

The close municipalities are Tammela in the west, Renko in north, Janakkala in the North-East, Riihimäki in the east, and side Uusimaa Hyvinkää in south-east, Vihti in the south and Karkkila in south-west.

Curiosities

the church of the 17th century is the oldest church in Bois of the country.
the old hunting lodge of C.G.E. Mannerheim, which it used of 1942 to its death. It is transformed today while restoring.

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