The boy watching birds from the birdtower next to the Tuomiojärvi-lake

In the harbor you may see the beautiful boat, but also ducks and other waterbirds

On the lakes you may try rowing or canoeing

Bicycling is an easy way to move from place to place in a city. There are good cycle ways everywhere. Bicycling is also a cheap mean of transportation and students appreciate using it. The bikes are used all around the year, even in winter.

Typical Finnish breakfast include porridge, bread, cheese, cold cut, vegetables, and sometimes "Carelian pies" and egg-butter or maybe cereals, and of course coffee or tea.

This is not a traditional Finnish dish, but very common it is. Soup with minced meat with potatoes and vegetables. Soup is very typical every day dish for families. The basis of the soup is the same, but we change proteins, from meat, sausages, chicken to fish.

Lovely pastries and cookies are served in the Cafe Tiede, which locates in Jyväskylä University's Lähde-library.

Bread cheese is a traditional food in Finland. In the past it was prepared on the farms from the cow's colostrum baked on the open fire, but nowadays we can buy it in every food store. Usually bread cheese is eaten with jam or berries as a dessert or with coffee.

Gingerbread is a traditional Finnish Christmas treat. Many families open their "Christmas time" at the beginning of the December by baking gingerbreads. There are tens of different shapes for these biscuits, but most traditional looks like a flower. Nowadays people also like to decorate their gingerbreads.

Finnish people drink always coffee, when they meet each other, when they open the meetings or have a break a work. Very often coffee, or tea, needs "a friend", which is very often a bun. Here cinnamon buns called "Korvapuusti" in Finnish. Delicious any time, but especially warm and freshly baked from the oven with a mug of coffee or a glass of cold milk.

Rentukka restaurant serve students and other customers lunch, dinner and snacks, also drinks and coffee. Rentukka locates in "Student village" called Ylioppilaskylä, where lives about thousand students, and hundreds of them eat or drink at Rentukka daily.

This photo is taken during the "City of Light" event as Student village also participated on the event.

Panda factory of confections and liquorice sells its famous sweets in the outlet shop next to the factory. It is located in Vaajakoski 5km from the city center. It is “the place to visit” for everyone who loves chocolate and other sweet treats”.

Bar Sohwi locates to a historical site next to the Jyväskylä university. Sohwi's summer terrace is oldest in Jyväskylä and it has served thirsty customers since 1968. Go and grab a beer or a coffee, or eat the whole meal.

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Jyväskylä City Church locates in the middle of the city center in the middle of "the Church Park". You cannot miss it. The church is popular place for weddings and it has stand on its place since 1880. It represent both Romanesque and Gothic style in designing, which was typical to that era. It invites people every Sunday to a Lutheran Service or Mass.

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Also the large church and park surrounding it are lighten in the City of Light-event

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Jyväskylä City Hall has served Jyväskylä citizens since 1899. It has been renovated several times. City Hall locates next to the Church Park in the center of Jyväskylä.

There are nice areas for reading papers and magazines in all of the three floors.

In the library hallway are changing art exhibitions where local art groups may perform their art.

Cafe Novelli serves library customers with coffee, tea, pies, pastries and sandwiches.

Library Lähde is a library of the Jyväskylä University. It has been reopened after a renovation in August 2021. There are all the books that students need for their studies and researches. There are also small classrooms for lectures, quiet studying rooms or tables with computers or soft sofas available free of charge for hundreds of student daily. Lähde is very poplar meeting and studying place in the university, and there are also Cafe Tiede and Restaurant Taide, which serve hungry students

There tens of red bricked buildings.

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On the walls of the buildings in Jyväskylä University's Seminaarimäki Campus are large black-and-white photographs from the old days. The photos give us a glance to the past habits of university studying.