Kartano is the 2nd district of the city of
Lahti
Lahti (; sv, Lahtis) is a city and municipality in Finland. It is the capital of the region of Päijänne Tavastia (Päijät-Häme) and its growing region is one of the main economic hubs of Finland. Lahti is situated on a bay at the southern e ...
, in the region of
Päijät-Häme,
Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ...
. It borders the districts of
Niemi in the north,
Kiveriö in the east,
Keski-Lahti
Keski-Lahti ("Central Lahti") is the 1st district of the city of Lahti, in the region of Päijät-Häme, Finland. It covers the downtown areas of the city, circling the Market Square. It borders the districts of Niemi in the north, Kiveriö in t ...
in the south,
Salpausselkä
Salpausselkä (; "Bar Ridge") is an extensive ridge system left by the ice age in Southern Finland. It is a large terminal moraine formation that formed in front of the Baltic ice lake during the Younger Dryas period about 12,250–10,400 years ...
in the southwest and
Jalkaranta in the west.
The district takes its name from the
Fellman Manor; the Finnish word ''kartano'' directly translates to "manor" in English.
The population of the statistical district of Kartano was 5,614 in 2019.
Hakatornit
The Hakatornit are a series of seven nine-floor
apartment buildings on the Paasikivenkatu street in Kartano. Designed by architects Mauri Karkulahti and Eino Tuompo and constructed in 1951–1956, the towers have been proclaimed a built cultural environment of national significance by the
Finnish Heritage Agency
The Finnish Heritage Agency ( fi, Museovirasto, sv, Museiverket), previously known in English as the National Board of Antiquities, preserves Finland's material cultural heritage: collects, studies and distributes knowledge of it. The agency is a ...
.
See also
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Lahti bus station
The Lahti bus station ( fi, Lahden linja-autoasema) is located in the Kartano district of the city of Lahti, Finland.
Architecture
The Lahti bus station is a prime example of the functionalist era of station buildings in Finland. Its most notab ...
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Vesijärvi railway station
The Vesijärvi railway station ( fi, Vesijärven rautatieasema, sv, Vesijärvi järnvägsstation) is located in the city of Lahti, Finland, in the district of Kartano. It was one end of the port and industrial siding that branched off of the Rii ...
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