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=== Jyväskylä ===
{{wide image|Jyvaskyla panorama.jpg|1050px|A view from Lake Jyväsjärvi towards the city centre.}}
Lonely Planet calls [[Jyväskylä]] as a [[Mecca]] for architecture lovers around the world for its large collection of [[Alvar Aalto]] buildings. The city is the biggest city on [[Finnish Lakeland]] and capital of [[Central Finland]].<ref>{{cite web|url= http://touch.lonelyplanet.com/destinations/Jyväskylä/l-destination/g-9021/d-600811|archive-url= https://archive.today/20130127222307/http://touch.lonelyplanet.com/destinations/Jyv%C3%A4skyl%C3%A4/l-destination/g-9021/d-600811|url-status= dead|archive-date= 27 January 2013|title= Introducing Jyväskylä|year= 2012|publisher= University of Lonely Planet|access-date= 4 July 2012}}</ref> Later, a modern architect [[Arto Sipinen]], a pupil of Aalto, has influenced in the cityscape since the 1970s by designing most of the new university buildings in the city.

The [[Alvar Aalto Museum]] and the Museum of Central Finland form a centre of culture in the immediate vicinity of the historical campus of the [[University of Jyväskylä]]. Both museums are designed by a functionalist [[Alvar Aalto]]. The Alvar Aalto Museum displays the artist's most important work and design. The Museum of Central Finland specializes in cultural history. It serves both as the town museum of Jyväskylä and the provincial museum of Central Finland. [[Nokkakivi|Nokkakivi Amusement Park]] is about 20&nbsp;km from Jyväskylä.<ref>[https://www.rantapallo.fi/suomen-matkailu/kaikki-suomen-parhaat-huvipuistot-katso-lista/ Suomen parhaat huvipuistot - Rantapallo] (in Finnish)</ref>

One of architect Aalto's most significant works Säynätsalo Town Hall is located in [[Säynätsalo]] island on Lake [[Päijänne]].

The city hosts the '''[[Rally Finland|Neste Oil Rally Finland]]''' (formerly known as '''1000 Lakes Rally'''). It is the biggest annually organised public event in the [[Nordic countries]], gathering over 500,000 spectators every year. The rally has been held since 1951, first as a national competition, then from 1959 on as a [[European Rally Championship]] event and since the introduction of the [[World Rally Championship]] in [[1973 World Rally Championship season|1973]], as Finland's WRC event.

'''UNESCO World Heritage''' site [[Petäjävesi Old Church]] is located in vicinity of Jyväskylä.