Kittila: Tie 80 Kittilä, Tepsa - Sodankylään
Kittilä straddles the Ounasjoki River in Finnish Lapland, and its riverside setting has made it a service centre for settlements spread across a large northern municipality. The area extends from the forests and mires of the Ounasjoki valley towards the fells around Levi, one of Finland’s best-known ski resorts. Kittilä Airport connects this sparsely populated part of Lapland with other Finnish cities and international destinations. Reindeer herding remains an important livelihood and cultural tradition, alongside tourism and gold mining. Roads are essential here, linking the municipal centre with villages including Tepasto and with the open fell country of Pallas-Yllästunturi National Park.
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The Ounasjoki River defines the setting of Kittilä — its southward course gives this Finnish Lapland centre a low, wooded riverside profile and has long linked settlements across the municipality. North of the Arctic Circle, Kittilä belongs to a land of forests, fells and long winters; the Ounasjoki is a major tributary of the Kemijoki river system. The Levi fell resort stands in nearby Sirkka, and the municipality also extends into the Pallas–Yllästunturi National Park area. Kittilä Church, designed by Carl Ludvig Engel and completed in 1831, provides a neoclassical focal point in the centre. Browse other webcams across Finnish Lapland to place Kittilä in a wider geographic context.
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