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Tapiola ( Finnish) or Hagalund ( Swedish) is a district of Espoo on the south coast of Finland, and is one of the major urban centres of Espoo. It is located in the western part of Greater Helsinki. The name Tapiola is derived from Tapio, who is the forest god of Finnish mythology, especially as expressed in the Kalevala, the national epic of Finland.
Tapiola was largely constructed in the 1950s and 1960s by the Finnish housing foundation and was designed as a garden city. It is the location for the Espoo cultural centre.
According to the Finnish National Board of Antiquities Tapiola was the largest and most valuable of the new construction ideologies in the 1960s in Finland. Its architecture and landscaping that combines urban living with nature has attracted tourists ever since.
Tapiola (literally, "Realm of Tapio"), Op. 112, is a tone poem by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius, written in 1926 on a commission from Walter Damrosch for the New York Philharmonic Society. Tapiola portrays Tapio, the animating forest spirit mentioned throughout the Kalevala. It was premiered by Damrosch on 26 December 1926.
Tapiola is a planned city district within the city of Espoo, Finland.
Tapiola may also refer to:
- Tapiola (Sibelius), a symphonic poem by Jean Sibelius
- Tapiola Bank, a Finnish bank
- Tapiola, Michigan, an unincorporated community in Michigan, USA