Säynätsalo Town Hall is one of the most important works of architect Alvar Aalto, and has an internationally renowned place in the history of modern architecture.
Aalto himself fell in love with Säynätsalo and named the islands the Tahiti of Lake Päijänne.
Our Business Values
We honor the legacy of Alvar Aalto and we cherish it with the protection decision of the town hall and the original purpose of use taken into account. The Town Hall is not just for the tourists, researchers, and experts but also for the citizens, municipal citizens, islanders, and for everyone who wants to get to know the world-famous building and sense its democracy, humanity, and unique connection to the surrounding archipelago nature.
The operators of the Säynätsalo Town Hall, Tavolo Bianco Oy, and AaBakery Ky respect and support the worldwide recognised human rights principles and help implement them in all their business areas.
The Säynätsalo Town Hall is an open visitation location for everyone. We are developing our ways of acting to equalise the social, cultural, physical, economic, and regional starting points of different visitor groups and also to pay attention to diversity. We do not tolerate discrimination, harassment, bullying, or associating such behaviour with the Town Hall's operation. We do not restrict events or their programmes as long as the organisers and performers comply with Finnish law and do not support or create hate speech. We condemn every form of hate speech that provokes, promotes, or justifies thoughtlessness or intolerance. We do not accept hate speech related to, for example, skin colour, origin, national or ethnic origin, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or disability in any operation associated with the Town Hall. We support minority actions so they can achieve an equal position with stronger operators in society. We also support operators who regard themselves as strong and whose voices – often a majority – remain fresh and receive an equal opportunity to renew and stay up to date.
We welcome even a sharp conversation about, e.g., the economy, political decision-making, or the actions of the authorities. Also, the actions of the Town Hall, Tavolo Bianco, and AaBakery can and should be critically evaluated.
Our equality and parity principles
We have zero tolerance for discrimination, harassment, and bullying.
The diverse background of our personnel, visitors, and cooperation partners is our power source.
Our personnel works to promote parity and equality.
Our services promote understanding and interaction between cultures.
We are a visitation place open for everyone.
We open our doors both for local people and tourists coming far away.
Our building and web services are as unobstructed and reachable as possible socially, physically, culturally, and economically. The protection of the building sets some restrictions on accessibility.
We strive to notice the diversifying society in our services and activities.
We also require tolerance and equality from our cooperation partners.
Networks
The Aalto Architecture and Design Heritage Tourism Route Association promotes tourism to sites designed by Alvar Aalto's architectural practice, and preserves their cultural heritage.
Development must be sustainable for the tourism industry to meet changing demand and secure its future. To this end, Visit Finland has developed the Sustainable Travel Finland programme for tourism businesses and regions and the Sustainable Travel Finland label.
Biosphere Community: the largest sustainability community in the world. More than 30 million tourists visit Biosphere Destinations and companies.
We Speak Gay develops a more open business culture by educating companies and communities about the importance of inclusion and sexual and gender diversity.
The Autism Friendly certification aims to make services more accessible to people with autism spectrum disorder. For Information on visiting the Municipal Hall, read our Autism-Friendly guidelines.
Visit Finland and 60 Finnish tourism companies and regions have signed the Glasgow Declaration for Climate Action in Tourism, the tourism industry's global climate declaration. The signatories commit to halving their carbon dioxide emissions during this decade and aim to achieve carbon neutrality before 2050.
The Welcome Cyclist logo is designed to make life easier for cycling tourists who are looking for suitable services. Cycling-friendly businesses will welcome cyclists, even when they are crunchy, and offer them secure bike storage, a pump and basic tools, a charging point, and information about routes, services, and cycling facilities in the area.
Accessibility and accessible services belong to everyone! The Equal Service for All label is a sign of our commitment to improving the accessibility of our premises, services, and products. The YPK label has been developed as a tool for private and public sector actors to promote equality.
