Siuntio is a municipality of Finland located in the Uusimaa region in the province of Southern Finland.
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17 Facts About Siuntio
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Siuntio's motto is "Ota rauhallisesti - Ta det lugnt", meaning "take it easy", spelled in both Finnish and Swedish respectively.
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Siuntio has been inhabited since the Stone Age, with the oldest evidence of farming settlements discovered in the river valley around the medieval Siuntio church.
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The oldest known document mentioning Siuntio is from the year 1382, addressing a donation for the Church of St Lawrence in Lohja.
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The northern part of Siuntio has many high hills and a large esker covered in forest while the southern part of Siuntio is less hilly but covered in forests.
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Siuntio has a few Natura 2000 nature protection areas such as the Plytberg Oak Forest, Torsgard's old forest, Meiko-Lapptrask lake area and the riverbanks of Siuntio river.
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Siuntio river is the most dominant part of the nature in this area.
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At that time the Siuntio river was a large sound bordered by the Lohja esker.
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Siuntio Spa was built near Lepopirtti, a wellness centre for working-class women, in 1976.
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Siuntio spa offers wellness services and has 3 pools, sports fields and nature paths.
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In 2020 Siuntio started constructing a new school centre following the demolition of Aleksis Kiven koulu school.
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Siuntio doesn't have any upper secondary schools and teenagers usually start going to school in Kirkkonummi, Lohja, Vihti or Helsinki after upper comprehensive school.
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