Where to Stay in Saukkola, Uusimaa

Saukkola is known as a village of the old parish country of Uusimaa, ringed by lakes and country churches in southern Finland. The wooden Nummen kirkko anchors the Nummi corner nearby, while the Pusulan kirkko keeps the Pusula parish to the north. Churches mark the land.

The croft of Paikkarin torppa preserves an old smallholding in the lake country, and the Nummen kotiseutumuseo gathers the local heritage of this part of southern Finland.

The wooden Nummen kirkko is the landmark closest to Saukkola, the country church of the Nummi corner of Uusimaa. To the north the Pusulan kirkko keeps the Pusula parish, and the church of Sammatin kirkko stands in its own corner of the lake country. Old smallholdings survive nearby.

The croft of Paikkarin torppa preserves a modest farmstead, the Nummen kotiseutumuseo gathers local heritage, and the Kovelan traktorimuseo keeps a collection of farm machinery in this part of southern Finland.

Saukkola's history belongs to the old parishes of the Uusimaa lake country. The village grew as a centre of the Nummi corner, gathered near the wooden Nummen kirkko among the lakes of southern Finland, while the older parish of Pusula kept its own church, the Pusulan kirkko, to the north. Farms and churches came first.

A scattered settlement of crofts and smallholdings, the croft of Paikkarin torppa among them, made up the country long before any larger town drew near. Farming and forestry shaped the centuries that followed. The neighbouring parish of Sammatti kept its church, the Sammatin kirkko, by its own lakes, and the rural life of the district gathered around the country churches, the village shops and the cooperative trade of the lake country.

Local memory was later kept in the Nummen kotiseutumuseo and in the farm machinery of the Kovelan traktorimuseo. Saukkola settled into its quiet role as a village of the southern Finnish lakeland, a small centre of the old Nummi-Pusula country of Uusimaa.

Saukkola lies in the lake-and-forest country of inland Uusimaa, in southern Finland, where lakes, low ridges and farmland thread between the woods. The village sits near the Nummen kirkko in the Nummi corner, with water and pinewoods spreading out on every side. Lake country runs deep here.

To the north the Pusula parish gathers around the Pusulan kirkko, the Sammatti country around the Sammatin kirkko and its lakes lies to the west, and crofts like the Paikkarin torppa stand scattered among the forests of this part of southern Finland.

Saukkola has the cool, lake-tempered climate of inland southern Finland, its seasons set by the water and the forests of the Uusimaa lake country. Winters are cold and snowy, frost gripping the lakes and the woods around the village from early in the season until the spring thaw clears the ice. Summers are warm and bright.

The long northern daylight warms the lakes and the pinewoods through the short growing season around Saukkola, the time when the lakeside cottages of Uusimaa fill before the snow returns.

Saukkola sits off the rail lines in the lake country of inland Uusimaa, and the car is the usual way in. The main road through the Nummi corner carries most visitors to the village, linking Saukkola to the larger town of Lohja and on toward the southern Finnish coast. The road is the link here.

Local buses also reach the centre on routes from Lohja and the neighbouring towns, while travellers from farther off come by way of Lohja before the last stretch into the lake country of Uusimaa.