Pitäjänmäki
Pitäjänmäki is a district located on the westernmost district of Helsinki, Finland, near the border with Espoo.
Pitäjänmäki is a district located on the westernmost district of Helsinki, Finland, near the border with Espoo. There are many IT and machine manufacturing companies in the area, especially around the Valimo railway station. Such companies include Nokia, Nokia Siemens Networks, ABB, Fujitsu Siemens, Digia, Martela as well as Nordea Bank, Stockmann Auto Oy and Sweco Industry Oy. Besides, the suburb also contains many residential apartment buildings. The nearest shopping mall is Sello in Leppävaara, Espoo.
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Worth seeing in and around Pitäjänmäki
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Central Park
Central Park is a park in Helsinki, Finland. It has an area of 10 square kilometres.
3.1 km · park in Helsinki, Finland · Wikipedia - 02Gallen-Kallela Museum
The Gallen-Kallela Museum, located in Tarvaspää, Espoo, Finland, and built between 1911 and 1913 was a home and studio for Finnish painter Akseli Gallen-Kallela. The atelier building has been a museum since 1961.
2.1 km · art museum in Espoo, Finland · Wikipedia - 03Didrichsen Art Museum
Didrichsen Art Museum is an art museum in Helsinki, Finland.
4 km · art museum in Helsinki, Finland · Wikipedia - 04Studio Aalto
The Studio Aalto is a house in the Tiilimäki neighbourhood of Munkkiniemi, Helsinki, which Alvar Aalto designed during 1955–56 to be the studio of his architect bureau. Due to a large number of commissions, the office needed more space in which to work.
2.6 km · building in Finland · Wikipedia - 05Villa Aalto
The Aalto House is a historic home and former architectural studio located in Munkkiniemi, Helsinki, Finland. Designed by architects Aino Aalto and Alvar Aalto as their joint residence and workspace, it was completed in August 1936.
2.8 km · home museum, located in Munkkiniemi, Helsinki, Finland · Wikipedia - 06Sello
Sello is a shopping mall in the Leppävaara, Espoo, Finland. The mall contains more than 170 shops and services including a concert hall and a library.
2.9 km · shopping mall in Espoo, Finland · Wikipedia - 07Metropolia University of Applied Sciences
The Metropolia University of Applied Sciences is a University of Applied Sciences in Finland. The university has four campuses, offering 93 degree programs in business, culture, healthcare and social services, and technology.
4 km · Finnish university of applied sciences · Wikipedia - 08Yle Transmission Tower
Pasilan linkkitorni, also known as Yle Transmission Tower, is a 146-metre high TV tower in Pasila, Helsinki. Pasilan linkkitorni was built in 1983 and has at a height of 112 metres rooms with technical equipment.
3.8 km · TV tower in Helsinki, Finland · Wikipedia - 09St. Mary's Church
St. Mary Catholic Parish is a Roman Catholic parish based in the Meilahti neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland.
3.9 km · Catholic church in Helsinki, Finland · Wikipedia - 10National Institute for Health and Welfare
The Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare is a Finnish research and development institute operating under the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health. THL was formed on 1 January 2009, with the merger of the National Public Health Institute of Finland and the National Research and Development Centre for Welfare and Health.
2.9 km · governmental research and expert institute in Finland · Wikipedia
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Getting to Pitäjänmäki
- Airports
- Helsinki Vantaa (HEL), 12 km · Lennart Meri Tallinn (TLL), 90 km · Turku (TKU), 147 km
- Stations
- Malminkartano railway station, 2.9 km · Huopalahti railway station, 1.8 km · Ilmala railway station, 3.5 km · Leppävaara railway station, 2.6 km · Pohjois-Haaga railway station, 1.6 km
- Turku → Pitäjänmäki145 km · quickest by road, 2h 21m · €16–23
- Tampere / Pirkkala → Pitäjänmäki149 km · quickest by road, 2h 40m · €18–25
- Lappeenranta → Pitäjänmäki204 km · quickest by road, 3h 40m · €23–32
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No local-transport research exists yet for Pitäjänmäki
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Pitäjänmäki. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThere are car ferries from Stockholm and Tallinn and roro-ships from Travemünde.
- Go nextIf returning through Sweden you could take the ferry from Turku instead, saving some money and driving.
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Next door to Pitäjänmäki
Pitäjänmäki is 7 km from Helsinki, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Munkkiniemicity district and the 30th neighbourhood of Helsinki, Finland2.6 km
- Leppävaaracity district in Espoo, Finland2.6 km
- Haagacity district and the 29th neighbourhood of Helsinki, Finland1.8 km
- Kuusisaarineighborhood of Helsinki, Finland3.7 km
- Kaarelacity district and the 33rd neighbourhood of Helsinki, Finland3.4 km
- Pikku Huopalahtineighbourhood of Helsinki, Finland2.7 km