Suomen Tivoli () is the largest

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. , it contains 27 rides and is visited by some 300,000 visitors yearly. The carnival's history dates back to 1888, when Johan Grönroos set up a carnival in

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. Grönroos expanded the business into a circus in 1898, and purchased what was likely the first

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in Finland in 1899. The family name was changed to Sariola by Johan's son, J. A. F. Grönroos in 1918. Sariola's carnival soon grew into four different traveling sections, of which Suomen Tivoli and Tivoli Sariola are the only ones remaining active.

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