The borough of Hämeenkyrö is more than 700 hundred years old with a population
of just over 10 000, neighbouring the city of Tampere.
The Finnish author Frans Emil Sillanpää (1888-1964) from Hämeenkyrö
received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1939.
Sillanpää described extremely well the beautiful nature
in Hämeenkyrö and how people lived at the beginning of the 20th century.
Blue lakes, green and hilly fields together with
thick forests create a varied and rich environment that has become one of the
most valuable landscapes in Finland.