CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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From Muurame it runs 193 km to Muurame; allow about 4 h 07 of riding. On the way it passes PUOLAKKA Oravivuori, Petäjävesi Old Church and back through PUOLAKKA Oravivuori. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Alvar Aalto built himself a summer house here on Muuratsalo, an island in Lake Päijänne's northern waters near Jyväskylä, and called it the Experimental House. He began it in the early 1950s, and the idea was literal: the walls of the square courtyard are patched with dozens of different bricks and tiles, laid out as samples to see how they weathered through Finnish winters. It is a low whitewashed building with a courtyard open to the sky, and it sits between the pines and the water. Nearby, in Säynätsalo, his town hall of dark red brick is a gem of Finnish modernism.
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Experimental House is where the day begins. Next is PUOLAKKA Oravivuori.
Finland's lakeland is a country of water more than of land, and Päijänne, the second largest lake in the country, runs south from here for over a hundred kilometres in long, island-dotted fingers. Oravivuori, Squirrel Hill, is a forested rise near Puolakka in the Korpilahti district, now part of Jyväskylä, and the lookout on the hill gives a wide view over spruce, pine and the shining lake beyond. The label points to a hill rather than a monument, so think of it as a place to climb, look and breathe.
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PUOLAKKA Oravivuori comes up about 41 km into the recorded legs. Next is Petäjävesi Old Church.
The lakeland of Central Finland is a place of low wooded ridges, narrow lakes and small farms, and Petäjävesi, a village of three and a half thousand people, lies on the shore of Lake Päijänne's northern arm, about twenty-five kilometres from Keuruu. Its old church, built entirely of pine logs, is one of the best-known wooden buildings in Europe and was inscribed by UNESCO in 1994.
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about 97 km into the recorded legs you reach Petäjävesi Old Church. Next is back through PUOLAKKA Oravivuori.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete PUOLAKKA Oravivuori write-up.
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back through PUOLAKKA Oravivuori, late in the day. Next is Experimental House.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Experimental House write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Experimental House. That is the ride.
Experimental House → PUOLAKKA Oravivuori is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
PUOLAKKA Oravivuori → Petäjävesi Old Church is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Petäjävesi Old Church → back through PUOLAKKA Oravivuori is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through PUOLAKKA Oravivuori → Experimental House is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.