Turku

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Torku (Finnish pronunciation:. Åbo [?o?b?] (listen)) is a beautiful town situated on the Finnish county's south coast at the orifice of the aura[8][9] in the rural areas of southwestern Finland. Turku, as a small village, was populated in the thirteenth and probably established at the end of the thirteenth cent.

Soon it became Finland's most important town, a position it maintained for centuries. When Finland became part of the Russian Empire (1809) and the capitol of the Grand Duchy of Finland was relocated to Helsinki (1812), Turku remained Finland's most densely populated town until the end of the 1440s, remaining a local capitol and an important commercial and cultu-rural centre.

Turku's genitative is Turun, which means "of Turku" in Finish. Many of the Finish titles of the organisations and institutions of Turku begin with this term, as in Turun for the University of Turku. It has a long tradition as Finland's biggest town and sometimes as the administration centre of the nation, but in the last two hundred years it has been outdone by Helsinki.

It is Finland's oldest city[16] and its first capitol. Initially, the term "Finland" only related to the area around Turku (hence the name " Finland Proper " for the region). In the Middle Ages Turku was the residence of the Bishop of Turku (a name that was later promoted to Archbishop of Turku), who ruled the then east half of the Kingdom of Sweden (most of what is now Finland) until the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Although Turku had no formal financial standing, both the short-lived dukes' and governors-general of Finland had their seats there. Finland's first academy, the Royal Academy of Turku, was established in Turku in 1640. In 1676 Turku was also the place where the states of Finland met.

Turku became the formal capitol after the Finnish War, which ended in 1809 when Sweden gave up Finland to imperial Russia with the Treaty of Fredrikshamn, but soon ceased to be Helsinki because Emperor Alexander I felt that Turku was too far away from Russia and too close to Sweden to function as the capitol of the Grand Duchy of Finland.

After the great fire of Turku, which almost entirely devastated the town in 1827, the remaining Turku office buildings were eventually relocated to the new capitol. After the fire, a new and secure map was created by the famous architects Carl Ludvig Engel, who also created the new Helsinki area.

For another twenty years Turku stayed Finland's biggest town. 1918 a new college, the Åbo Akademi - the only school in Finland - was born. In addition, the Finnish-speaking Turku Univeristy was established two years later. This is the second and third of the two schools established in Finland through personal sponsors.

With regard to the urban landscape, both architectonic and lifestyle trends have changed in the twentieth and epoch. Whereas the town had relatively survive relatively well during the 1939-1945 years of the war[quote required], in the 1950' and 1960' the town was confronted with growing changes due to the growing demand for housing, the willingness to reconstruct and above all the new developments in terms of infrastructures (especially the increase in car traffic).

Most of the one- to two-storey timber buildings that dominated the town' s architecture were pulled down in the 1950' and 1960' to allow more effective construction and facilitate car use. Since 1878, it has been located on one of the most precious sites in the town centre and was the first major structure of the University of Turku, for example.

Others that were considered disgraceful at the moment of the operation or in later years are the noble house (subject to the very first reception in Finland) and the Old Hotel Börs in Art Nouveau style, constructed by Frithiof Strandell in 1909.

In Turku there are ten crossings over the Aura. 19 ] The Föri, a small boat that carries walkers and bikes across the riverbank free of charge, is a well-known characteristic of the town. The Turku area ( "LAU 1") is the third biggest metropolitan area in Finland with around 300,000 inhabitants after the Helsinki metropolitan area and the Tampere area.

Besides the town itself, the following communities are part of the region: The Turku metropolitan area, with around 235,000 inhabitants, is a more exclusively defined area of the town, comprising the four large communities of Kaarina, Raisio, Naantali and Turku. or Martti, is one of the smallest but most populous areas of Turku.

Since many of the small neighboring communities from the mid-20th centuries in the west and west of the town had been conquered, Turku is now formed like an oblong orb. Situated in the center of the town and most of the suburbs, separate from the less populous northerly countryside by the Turku ring road, which is part of the EU18.

Archipelagos such as Ruissalo, Hirvensalo and Kakskerta, which form the south part of the town, are also thinly settled and mostly contain summers' homes, with the exceptio n of some Hirvensalo boroughs, which are currently becoming suburban areas of the higher mid-range. Located on the Baltic Sea and protected from the archipelago island, Turku has a moist mainland climatic conditions (Köppen Dfb).

As in much of South Finland, the town has hot summer days with up to 86°F (30°C) and relatively cool winter days with snow. Turku has an annual mean of 720 mm (28. 3 in) rain. August is the rainy season of the year, when the town has an annual mean of 80 mm (3. 1 in) of rain.

Turku's economic quarter focuses on the port of Turku and other service-oriented industry. It is also a prestigious high-tech center - the Turku Science Park in Kupittaa is home to over 300 companies from the areas of biotech and information technologies as well as several universities that work in close cooperation with industry.

The co-operative nature is seen as a particularly important determinant of the anticipated urban economy, as set out in the Turku Strategy issued each year by the Cityminister. At least the following large Finish enterprises have their head office in Turku: Further large enterprises active in Turku are Bayer, Fläkt Woods, Meyer Werft, Orion Corporation and Wärtsilä.

Turku's heritage includes several theaters, movie theaters, arts and a municipal orchestras. The Turku is also the Finnish Christmas town, and the "Christmas Peace" in Finland is proclaimed every 24th December from the Brinkkala Hall door. Turku and Ruisrock in Ruissalo are among the oldest of their kind in Scandinavia.

It is also home to another skirt-fest, Down by the Laituri, and one of the biggest electronica Festivaali in Northern Europe, UMF[25] (Uuden Musiikin Festivaali, "New Mustivaali "), as well as a pulsating all-night market. It also has a number of art galleries, such as the Turku Art Museum and the Wäinö Aaltonen Art Museum.

Åbo Akademi University has the Sibelius Musuem, the only one in Finland that specialises in the musical world. There are also several historic monuments showing the city's Middle Ages, such as Turku Castle, which has been a functioning historic monument since 1881, and the Aboa Vetus Monument, which was opened in the fourteenth cent.

Luostarinmäki Crafts and Crafts Centre, which was rebuilt from houses that survive the great Turku fire of 1827, was the first Nordic town to be awarded the Golden Apple Tour. The Turku is the European Capital of Culture for 2011 and the Municipal Government has endorsed a number of initiatives to strengthen the city's reputation for this state.

Since the Middle Ages, the declarations of Christmas peace have been a traditional part of Finland every year, except in 1939 due to the Winter War. It will take place on Christmas Eve at the Old Great Square in Turku, Finland's formal "Christmas City". This declaratory celebration begins with the anthem Jumala Olympi Linnaamme (Martin Luther's A Strong Castle is Our God) and is continued with the Christmas Peace Explanation, which has been interpreted in Swedish and Finnis.

It has two soccer leagues that play at the highest levels, the Veikkausliiga: FC Inter and TPS. The TPS is one of Finland's oldest soccer associations. Turku-based HC TPS is one of the most succesful sides in Finland's icehockey past. She is in Finland's top leagues, the SM-Liga.

Paavo Nurmi Marathon is an international sports competition in Turku called after the world-famous Paavo Nurmi, who was borne and grew up in the town. Turku, the county and province capitol, is an important administration center with the Archbishop of Finland and an appeal court.

Since 2010 Aleksi Randell is Turku's major. Turku Municipal Assembly has 67 members. The present chairman of the Municipal Assembly is Minna Arve of the NCP. The results of the 2011 elections in Turku: Train services to and from Turku are operated by the VR, the Finish flag carriers.

Pohjola main train and two smaller train stops in Kupittaa and the port of Turku are currently used for people. Turku Bus and Train Departments and Turku Main Train are currently in different locations. Turku plans to unite the two in a new, larger train set in the nearuture.

The Turku Airport is situated 8 km northerly of the town center, partially in the neighboring community of Rusko. You can also take ferries from Turku harbour to Sweden and the Åland Islands, which are run by Silja Line and Viking Line. They are something of a Finish culture custom (see ruotsinlaiva), and often travellers go long journeys through Finland to Turku just to take a trip across the Gulf of Bothnia.

In the Archipelago Sea, shipping is carried out by the SS Ukkopekka, an old steamboat on the Turku-Naantali-Turku itinerary. It is the only town in Finland with three mainline stations: The Turku Central, port of Turku and Kupittaa. The Turku has a longer education than any other town in Finland - the first cathedral college in the town was built together with Turku Cathedral in the latter 1600.

Finland's first college, the Royal Academy of Turku (now Helsinki University), was opened in the town in 1640. The first Bell Lancaster secondary modern in Finland was set up in Turku in 1820 with the goal of making lower grades elementary schools more integration.

About 35,000 people live in Turku. Turku is Finland's second biggest univeristy (18,000 students) in terms of number of enrolments and one of the oldest, established in 1920. Åbo Akademi, established in 1918 as Finland's second academic institution, is Finland's only single swedisch speaking school.

In 2010, the Turku School of Economics joined the University of Turku and Åbo handelshögskola, its counterparts in Sweden, and the Åbo Akademi in 1980. Turku General Hospitals, the University Hospitals of Turku, is attached to the University and is used as a teacher's hospitait. The Turku University of Applied Sciences is Finland's second biggest university of applied sciences after the Metropolia University of Applied Sciences.

Novia University of Applied Sciences and Diaconia University of Applied Sciences also have a campus in the city. Turku and surroundings' most widely reading paper is the local breakfast paper Turun Sanomat, with a reading audience of over 70% of the people. Åbo Underrättelser, a swedischsprachige Zeitung in Turku, is Finland's oldest paper and has been appearing since 1824.

Turkulainen is one of the most beloved papers, as are the Metro International restaurant and the Ilta Sanomat daily. 34 ] There are also a number of indigenous papers such as Kulmakunta (for the east outskirts of Turku, which includes Varissuo and Lauste) and Rannikkoseutu (for the area around the neighboring towns of Raisio and Naantali).

Tidningar Utgifne Af et Sällskap i Åbo, the first Finish paper in Swedish, was founded in Turku in 1771[35] and the first Finish edition of Suomenkieliset Tieto-Sanomat, which was founded in 1775. Turun Sanomat also runs a TV channel in the region known as Turku TV. Yleisradio, the Finish channel, broadcasts Monday through Friday and broadcasts the latest topical information for the inhabitants of Southwest Finland (including the Southwest Finland and Satakunta regions).

The Turku region is home to all of Finland's domestic television broadcasters. Yle Turun Broadcasting in Finland (the Yle Suomi Radios regionally available) and Yle Vega Åboland in Sweden (the Yle Vega regionally available) are available as well. The Turku is a partner:

The city of Turku has cooperation contracts with the following cities: EuroWeather in Turku. Finland's city of Turku. Territory of Finnish municipalities 1.1. 2018" (PDF). The National Survey of Finland. The Tiedote (in Finnish). Finland Statistics (Tilastokeskus). ab " Ennakkoväkiluku sukuolen mutkaan alkueittain, elokuuu 2017" (in Finnish). Finland Statistics Finland Statistics Finland Statistics

The Tax Administration of Finland. Turku Statistics Yearbook" (in Finnish). Turku, the Christmas city of Finland". www.turku.fi. Reiseziele in Finnland - Official travel and tourism guide". "Sarhainen Turku rokennettiin pellolle" (in Finnish). www.turku. fi " turku. fi " Turku. info " Publications and Reports". turku.fi.

Turku Titan's story. The Titans of Turku. Turku: The""Joukkoliikennetietoa" (in Finnish). "raitio.org (in Finnish). The Finnish Tramway Company. www.turku. fi " turku. fi " Turku. Info " Turku in brief". turku.fi. Turku International School. Turku University. Gda?sk The website: The Wikimedia Commons has a connection to Turku.

You can find the town' s website at http://www.turku.fi/. Turku TouRing's website at http://www.turkutouring.fi/.