Lahti (Lahden). A voyage to Lahti, Finland (Suomi) - Europe

One of Finland's major winter-sports centres, Lahti is a modern town about 100km north of Helsinki.
 It's a good place to go if you're interested in skiing, with a good museum on the sport, alongside the city's frighteningly high ski jumps.

 Lahti has hosted several world championships, most recently in 2001.

Founded in 1905, the city isn't hugely interesting in other respects, and lacks anything that could be called an 'old town'.

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