Sampo Vuoressa artwork in Kankaanpää
The artwork’s name Sampo vuoressa can be translated to Sampo in a mountain. The Kalevalian miracle mill Sampo was meant to symbolize Kankaanpää’s entrepreneurship.
The monumental four-meter-high Sampo is made of brass and its stone frame is gray granite from Kuru. Inside the work is a copper cylinder with documents and items from the day it was finished.
Inside the cylinder there is newspapers, money, a city brochure and a 1974 budget, information on industry, and minutes from the Statue Commission.
Kalevala is poetry collection compiled by Elias Lönnrot in the 19th-century from Karelian and Finnish oral folklore and mythology.
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Type of destination
Art
Website
https://www.kankaanpaa.fi/in-english/
Address
Kuninkaanlähteenkatu 7, 38700 Kankaanpää
Pricing
Free of charge.
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