Iittala Village — Attraction in Hämeenlinna sub-region

The name implies both the settlement and the glass works area. This is about the glass works area. It's a village because the site is composed of a number of smaller structures. The Iitalla Glass factory outlet store includes a museum component displaying the historic, traditional and modern moulds used in glass vessel/display item making. The store includes glass by Iitalla and other objects by other will known facilities from Finland. The prices are the same as in their stores in Helsinki. One that you'll not obtain elsewhere are the items of glass that are produced after they change the color of glass poured into the moulds. These create a unique colour of which there are no repeats as the colour varies from one piece to the next. These may not always be available, they were located at the entry to the store on a rolling rack shelf. Across from the store entry is a restaurant but it's not included in my review as I didn't...

We stopped by this village between our train ride from Helsinki and it was definitely worth a visit for a few hours. From the workshop to the museum to the small pop-up shops and confectionaries, we had a very...

Lovely stop to get your Fiskars or ittala products, and the surrounding shops are quite nice, and I highly recommend the museum! The chocolate shop closed a bit ago, so the experience isn't as nice...