Kurikka Sports Park has a 400-metre running track, a 10-hole frisbee golf course, a 1.4 m hiking trail, an outdoor gym, jetties for fishing, tennis courts and football and Finnish baseball fields that are in use in the summer. In winter, the area offers a long-distance ice skating track and a skating rink.
Pirunpesä, or the Devil’s Nest, is a fascinating ice-age formation in the rocky terrain of Isovuori in the village of Ylivalli in Jalasjärvi. The area also houses a viewing tower, the Kollinluola cave, the Paimenpoika pine (named after a young shepherd who was found frozen dead by the tree one morning in the 1850s), a …
Born in Kampinkylä, in Kurikka, Samuli Paulaharju (1875–1944) was an author and folklorist. Paulaharju, who published several books, was one of the best-known authors of his era. The ethnographical collection accumulated by Paulaharju is the world’s largest collection compiled by a single person. The statue was made by Nina Sailo, a close friend of Paulaharju’s. …
Rotary Park is a rhododendron park located in the vicinity of Kurikka’s centre. Since the area was tidied up and rhododendrons were planted, the park has been maintained by Kurikka’s Rotary Club. The park’s history goes back to 1974 when a city planner proposed that pines be planted on the fields at the crossroads of …
Kurikka railway station houses a renovated goods train locomotive, the VR Tr1 ‘Risto’ no. 1037 steam engine from 1942. In Finland, more than 30 old locomotives have been preserved as memorials. They are renovated and placed permanently in a public location.
TheLegend statue depicts Juha Mieto, a legendary cross-country skier and many-time medallist from Kurikka. In addition to his Olympic and World Championship medals, Juha Mieto is best remembered for his loss to Sweden’s Thomas Wassberg by one hundredth of a second at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics on 17 February 1980. Another well-known story about Mieto …
The Jurva Museum has operated in the area of the Haapala Farm since 1965. The area houses nine buildings, with the Haapala farmhouse hosting the main exhibition. The Jurva Museum offers an introduction to the local agricultural culture of the late 19th century and early 20th century. The first mention of the Haapala Farm in …
Located in Jurva, Kurikka, the Carpenter Museum is the only museum in Finland that specialises in the cabinetmaker industry. The museum presents objects related to the work of craftsmen and carpenters. It is maintained by the Carpenter Museum Association, which was established in 1983 to collect and record local carpentry traditions, arrange exhibitions, introduce the …
The Kurikka Museum invites visitors to learn more about the local traditions and history from the stone age to the 19th century, when the area’s old cottage was built. The old church, built in 1672, takes the visitor back in time. The museum also offers an introduction to the work of wedding musician and instrument-maker …
The Jalasjärvi Museum consists of almost 30 buildings, including an old village shop, a smoke sauna, a cottage and the home of sculptor Elias Ilkka (1889–1968). The area’s oldest building is a fisherman’s hut from Lempäälä, dating back to the 17th century. The Rinta-Mäntykoski house’s windmill, a smock mill in design, has become the museum’s …