PENTTILÄ GARDENS COTTAGES

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Cottages for rent in Finland.

Synsiö Lake with Penttilä boat house and sauna in the distance

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two secluded COTTAGES in the Finnish Lake District
artists in residence
painting and drawing courses EN NL and there are the water color workshops on the island of Puukonsaari.
hiking fishing swimming boating picking berries and mushrooms
POAM sculpture park

Airbnb offers vacation homes in Finland. Our two cottages are original small traditional working family homes in the middle of nature. Penttilä Gardens - an open space in the midst of forests and lakes - the name gardens applies to the period in which Penttilä was a center for horticulture and a fruit and vegetable farm. The inhabitants left somewhere during the sixties of the twentieth century and the forest reclaimed the gardens, the berry field and the orchard; the fields were planted with fir trees and birches. The five hundred and fifty meter long drive to the house was slowly overtaken by the forest. Sometimes people would venture to reach the wilderness garden to dig up certain garden plants and young oak trees - oaks can only be found in the far south west of Finland, but the micro climate here makes it possible for certain plants to grow this far from the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Finland.

Now there are two cottages available for people who enjoy nature and love to swim and hike or just take it easy and listen to the calm and peaceful sounds of the forest. One or two times a year a fisherman rows by one of the cottages.


sunset at the sauna - auringon lasku rantasaunaluona photo©Ulenkate

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A COTTAGE IN FINLAND - The Finnish summer is relatively short but is flooded with magical light and a surge of natural growth, every moment of which Finns savor and relish. Fishing, boating, sauna bathing, berry picking and eating are the favored pastimes, and Finns appreciate and value the elements of withdrawn, contemplative privacy that the summer house retreat affords. Visit Finland! The Finnish summer home is ideally situated close to water - sea or lake, almost always on a forested shoreline, with a wood-burning sauna within easy reach. Summer houses are scattered throughout the country, and cottages available for holiday rent enable visitors to enjoy the same replenishing pleasures as their Finnish hosts. Visit Finland! The Finnish summer home is ideally situated close to water -- sea or lake, it is usually always on a forested shoreline, with a wood-burning sauna within easy reach. The Finnish summer is flooded with magical light and a surge of natural growth, every moment of which Finns savor and relish. Fishing, boating, sauna bathing, berry picking and eating are the flavored pastimes, and Finns appreciate and value the elements of withdrawn, contemplative privacy that the summer house retreat affords. Summer houses are scattered throughout the country, and cottages available for holiday rent enable visitors to enjoy the same replenishing pleasures as their Finnish hosts.


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Penttilä Gardens

Marjo Heikkinen-den Arend and Lucien den Arend speak Finnish and English as well as Dutch and German. Marjo will give weekly courses in Finnish for beginners at Penttilä - studying an hour or two each day you can learn the basics of this language.

Lucien who is an artist (see www.denarend.com) conducts workshops in sculpture and painting for visitors.

cottages zomerhuisjes - trekking, fishing, swimming and sauna holidays - vacations in your own cottage in south east Finland - summer, fall, autumn, winter and spring at Penttilä Gardens

on the shore there are the smoke sauna and a normal wood heated one

cottages zomerhuisjes - trekking, fishing, swimming and sauna holidays - vacations in your own cottage in south east Finland - summer, fall, autumn, winter and spring at Penttilä Gardens
skiing in the winter

Penttilä Kartano (manor) used to be a vegetable and fruit farm - in the greenhouses tomatoes, paprika, grapes and a variety of flowers were grown. Horticulture was one of  its specialties. Since the fifties of the twentieth century nature has been recapturing its terrain. But certain species of  plants have persevered and they recall the period that Penttilä was one of the most famous nurseries of the region.

cottages zomerhuisjes - trekking, fishing, swimming and sauna holidays - vacations in your own cottage in south east Finland - summer, fall, autumn, winter and spring at Penttilä Gardens
one of the sauna platforms

Penttilä is situated in Etelä-Savo in south eastern Finland in Kangasniemi, between the cities of Jyväskylä and Mikkeli - both a sixty kilometers drive. Each has museums and theaters - Kangasniemi center with its shops is ten kilometers from Penttilä.

Penttilä has its private beach - or rather shoreline, on Lake Synsiö - there is a smoke sauna, as well as a normal one with a wood furnace of course - in the summer the water temperature varies between 20 and 26 degrees.

for those who like to fish, or just want to row, there are two rowboats available.

cottages zomerhuisjes - trekking, fishing, swimming and sauna holidays - vacations in your own cottage in south east Finland - summer, fall, autumn, winter and spring at Penttilä Gardens

one of the last apple trees in the meadow

The remnants of the orchard - fruit trees still produce apples and plums in the fields with wildflowers.

autumn picking apples in the indian summer

picking apples in the fall

The autumns in Finland are famous for their myriad of colors - ruska, as the Fins call it, is one of the most beautiful periods of the year

During the winter we have a totally different scene at the shore.

 

 

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