Lepaan puutarhaopisto

The Lepaa manor and institute area is a nationally significant built cultural environment (Council of State decision 30.11.2000). On the area, eight buildings, a cellar, a windmill and a park and garden have been protected under the decree on state buildings 2.12.1993. The manor complex is situated north of Hattula centre, on the shore of Lepäänvirta of Lake Vanajavesi.

Lepaa is among Häme's oldest manors; the first mention of a tax-exempt freehold is from the 1460s. After Lepaa manor came to the state through a testamentary donation in 1902, a horticultural school was established on the estate. The horticultural institute began its operations in 1912. Present-day Lepaa is divided into three parts.

The core of the area is formed by the institute courtyard built up in the 1930s, whose four buildings form a quadrangle. The second part consists of the oldest buildings in the area, the manor's main building and the pytinki building, in the park bordering the strait. A road runs through the area ending at a windmill, a late-medieval stone sacristy and the cemetery associated with it, surrounded by a stone wall.

Currently Lepaa hosts the horticultural institute unit of Häme University of Applied Sciences. The newest building stock in the area dates mainly from the turn of the 1950s and 1960s and from the 1990s. New greenhouses date from 2007.