Parikkala Sculpture Park — Attraction in Imatra sub-region

Parikkala Patsaspuisto or the sculpture park is a unique park with hundreds of amazing sculptures of humans and other animals. It is located in the Easter region of Finland, Parikkala. It is 320 km away from Helsinki, the capital city of Finland. It was created by an ITE artist Veijo Rönkkönen. It took him almost 50 years to build the park. There are five hundred concrete sculptures and a beautiful garden. It looks spell-binding during the summer. I along with my friends and family visited the park at the end of the summer when the trees were already losing their color, still it was...

Heartwarming, touching, inspiring. You'll learn everything about the artist who was such a peculiar, unique person. A lot of attention has been put on keeping the place up and running A lot of info is also in English

• But, inside this shed where you'll get to explore the artist's life through his writings, paintings, audio etc. there's no translations from Finnish.

Some noise from the highway interferes with the amosphere (or adds to it, depending on your...

A very peculiar place in the woods: a park full of concrete statues made by the artist during half a century. He is dead now, but left a whole legacy for us to observe and wonder. The statues represent different human figures, some happy, some sad, doing different activities, like sports, dancing, working etc. A really special place and highly recommended! The statues look even more amazing in the winter when they are...