Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #2 in Lahti, Finland

The Red Prisoners Memorial is a large-scale work of art designed by sculptor Erkki Kannosto in granite and bronze, located in Fellman Park in Lahti. On the site of the park in 1918 was a prison camp called Fellman's field. An invitational competition was held in 1976 to acquire the memorial, which Kannosto won. The work was erected by the workers' organisations in Lahti.

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Fellman Park was built on the former land of Fellman Manor in the 1950s in the centre of Lahti. The park is approximately five hectares in size and is bounded by Ståhlberginkatu, Kyösti Kallion katu and Paasikivenkatu.

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Moose is a sculpture by sculptor Jussi Mäntynen from 1923. Its bronze castings were erected in Vyborg in 1928, Lahti in 1955, Turku in 1969 and Helsinki in 1972.

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Erkonpuisto is a park located in the city centre of Lahti. It is named after the Finnish poet Juhana Heikki Erkko (1849–1906). The park has a fenced playground and four sculptures. The sculptures are Essi Renvall's monument to J. H. Erkko, Jussi Mäntynen's Moose sculpture (1955) and Emil Wikström's monument to Mikael Agricola from 1953. At the southern end of the park is Veikko Leppänen's statue of J. K. Paasikivi (1961).

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The Mikael Agricola Memorial is a half-body portrait of Mikael Agricola made by Finnish sculptor Emil Wikström, unveiled in 1908 in front of Vyborg Cathedral. The original bronze cast disappeared in the last days of the Winter War in 1940 and, despite subsequent searches, has not been found. Four reprints of the statue have been made in Turku (1910), Lahti (1953), Pernaja (1959), now part of Loviisa, and Vyborg (2009).

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The Eetu Salin Memorial is a statue erected in memory of Johan Edvard "Eetu" Salin, an activist, journalist and Member of Parliament of the Finnish labour movement, in the Mariankatu park in Lahti. Salin, one of the founding members of the Social Democratic Party of Finland, was born in Asikkala, a neighbouring municipality of Lahti, in 1866 and, after training as a shoemaker, worked in Lahti. The bronze statue is located in a park that is an extension of Mariankatu near the City Hall. The acquisition of the memorial statue was proposed by the Lahti Sos.-dem Municipal Association.

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The Homecoming of Hakkapeliitta is a sculpture by Pentti Papinaho located in the centre of Lahti. It is an equestrian statue depicting two Hakkapeliittas returning home. Today, the work is located south of Lahti Market Square, at the intersection of Aleksanterinkatu and Mariankatu.

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The Lahti Art Museum is a museum focusing on visual arts, located in Lahti, Finland. The museum was founded in 1950. In connection with it is also the Poster Museum, established in 1975.

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Lahti City Theatre is a Finnish professional theatre. The theatre attracts nearly 70,000 spectators annually. The theatre produces 7–10 new plays every year.

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The equestrian statue of Mannerheim in Lahti is a statue of Marshal Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim on horseback next to the Lahti railway station. The statue was made by sculptor Veikko Leppänen from Lahti and it was unveiled on 19 December 1959, about six months earlier than the equestrian statue in Helsinki. The work is the first equestrian statue of Mannerheim unveiled in Finland.

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Radio and TV Museum, also known as Mastola, is a museum located in Lahti, Finland. The museum is near the city centre on the Radiomäki hill. Next to the museum building are two 150-meter-high radio masts built in 1927. The masts are a well-known landmark and a symbol of the city. The museum operates in a radio station building designed by a Finnish architect Kaarlo Könönen and built in 1935.

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