Laitila (; sv, Letala) is a List of cities and towns in Finland, town and a municipalities of Finland, municipality of Finland. It is located in the Southwest Finland regions of Finland, region, and it is from Laitila to Turku. The municipality has a population of
()
and covers an area of of
which
is water.
The population density is
. The municipality is monolingually Finnish language, Finnish.
Laitila is renowned for its poultry farms and "Chicken egg, egg festival" (''Laitilan Munamarkkinat''), which is why the subject of the municipal coat of arms of Laitila also refers to the parish's fame for chicken care. There is a lot of demand for Laitila-based chicken eggs, as the local egg producer company Munax, among other things, has even planned to egg exports all the way to South Korea. Laitila has also been called the "egg capital of Finland".
[TS: Laitila on Suomen munapääkaupunki](_blank)
(in Finnish)
Culture
Laitila has a very large number of Iron Age antiquities, the most famous of which are the so-called the warrior's grave of Kodjala. Finland's oldest glass object, the Roman-era drinking horn, has been found in Laitila's Soukainen village. The nationally significant built cultural environments defined by the Finnish Heritage Agency in 2009 in Laitila include the Untamala and Suontaka villages and the Koukkela's the peasant house of Kauppila.
Koukkelan Kauppilan umpipihainen talonpoikaistalo
– ''Finnish Heritage Agency'' (in Finnish)
People
* Kaarlo Heininen (1853–1926)
* Pasi Saarela (born 1973)
* Mika Kares (born 1978)
* Valle Mäkelä (born 1986)
* Markus Seikola (born 1992)
* Susanna Tapani (born 1993)
References
External links
*
*
Town of Laitila
– Official site
Cities and towns in Finland
Municipalities of Southwest Finland
Populated places established in 1868
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