Espoo

Location, near Helsinki and Vantaa

Espoo.

Coat of arms

Espoo (Swedish: [Esbo] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help)) is the second largest city in Uusimaa, Finland. As of January 2014, more than 260,000 people lived in Espoo. Other municipalities near to it are Kauniainen, Vantaa, Kirkkonummi, Nurmijärvi, Vihti and the capital Helsinki.

Nature

There are several lakes in the northern parts of Espoo. Example Lippajärvi, Pitkäjärvi, Nuuksion Pitkäjärvi and Velskolan Pitkäjärvi.

Uusimaa.vaakuna
Evangelical Lutheran Cathedral in Espoo, originally built as a Catholic parish church in the 1480s
The Royal Manor in Espoo, founded by King Gustav I of Sweden in 1556. The current mansion was completed in 1797 and expanded in 1914.
The Neo-Renaissance Alberga Manor [fi], built by the Russian industrialist Feodor Kiseleff in the 1870s
Russian military map showing southeastern parts of Espoo sometime between 1870 and 1907
A map of "Krepost Sveaborg"
Military commanders of Germany during World War I: Paul von Hindenburg, emperor Wilhelm II and Erich Ludendorff
German soldiers in Leppävaara in 1918
VR Class Vk3 steam locomotive at Kauklahti railway station in the 1920s
The so-called "Hip flask houses" in Tapiola were built from 1959 to 1961. This picture is from 1967.