Luvia

Luvia [ luʋiɑ ] is a municipality with 3360 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) in the southwestern Finnish landscape Satakunta. It is located 20 kilometers south of the port city of Pori on the coast of the Gulf of Bothnia. Luvia is exclusively Finnish speakers.

The community was founded in 1870 and next to the village church Luvia includes the towns of Hanninkylä, Korvenkylä, Lemlahti, Luodonkylä, Löytty, Mikola, Niemenkylä, Peränkylä, Sassila, Sittlahti and Väipäre. The congregation was independent until 1901, previously included the villages to the neighboring village church Eurajoki.

The parish church of Luvia was built from 1908 to 1910 after plans by Josef Stenbäck in the style of the Finnish national romanticism of red granite and sandstone rubble; the altarpiece from 1912 is by Ilmari Launis. Other attractions Luvias still counts a 35 -meter-high lighthouse on the island Säppi, built in 1873.