For other places with the same name, see Pyhäjärvi (disambiguation).

Pyhäjärvi is a town and municipality in the Southern Oulu region.

Understand

Pyhäsalmi church

The municipality has some 5,500 inhabitants on 1,500 km². It is named after the lake Pyhäjärvi ("sacred lake", one of many by that name). The river Pyhäjoki flows from the lake to the Bay of Bothnia of the Baltic Sea, with its mouth in Pyhäjoki.

The town features the Pyhäsalmi mine, the deepest in Europe, with the probably deepest located sauna worldwide.

Get in

The railway between Iisalmi and Ylivieska connects Pyhäjärvi to the main railways from south to north.

National roads 4 (E75) and 27 pass through the municipality.

The nearest airports are in Jyväskylä, Kuopio, Kokkola and Oulu, about a two hours drive away.

Eat

• 1 Vaskikello, Vaskikellontie 420 (close to the junction of roads 4 and 27), ☏ +358 8 780-780. 08:00–20:00. Restaurant with bell gallery and bell foundry. €10–20. (updated Apr 2017)

Sleep

• 1 Hotelli Pyhäsalmi, Ollintie 19 (in the centre, by the lake), ☏ +358 8 478-8200, fax: +358 8 478-8299, ✉ info@hotellipyhasalmi.com. (updated Apr 2017)

Go next

Routes through Pyhäjärvi

Rovaniemi ← Oulu ←

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