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Parkour is a sport where the aim is to move as elegantly as possible by running, jumping, and climbing on surfaces and obstacles.
Parkour develops your strength, balance, and mobility. You can do it in your own style and at your own skill level.
Free to use. Night time silence at 22 - 7.
Updated 9 February 2024
This page offers compiled information on the preparation of the Turku employment area. You can order the employment area preparation newsletter (in Finnish) at the bottom of the page.
In the Market Square gaming area in front of the Orthodox Church you can enjoy the following games:
Linnanniemi is being developed into Turku's first art district, and the art programme will guide the area's development towards this goal. The art programme defines the themes of the arts and events, as well as the locations, measures and funding models for art.
The River Aura and its banks offer a wide range of experiences: urban environment, history, parks and recreational areas, culture and art, events, restaurants and entertainment. The vision for the city centre of Turku (2017) presented a view of a cultural riverbank where new services, activities and thoroughfares complementing the cultural and artistic institutions of Itäinen Rantakatu form a cultural boulevard.
The City of Turku and its partners are offering vacant spaces for a limited period of time for cultural and artistic activities. The spaces can be used for artistic work, events, workshops, performances, exhibitions or other cultural activities. In return, the cultural operators selected for the scheme are expected to organise cultural activities open to all Turku residents.
The Turku Culture Guest scheme is a new cultural wellbeing service developed by the City of Turku in cooperation with the Cultural Spearhead Project, Cultural Services and the Wellbeing Services County of Southwest Finland
Cultural guests are admitted free of charge to:
Turku will implement a package of winter measures to improve the activity, attractiveness, comfort, and safety of the winter season.
During the summer season, the city is an active and joyful place for events and diverse mobility. In winter, on the other hand, life slows down considerably when it comes to outdoor activities and outdoor events. Darkness, cold, snow and ice often hinder being outdoors and moving around.
In recent years, Turku has invested in guiding and developing event guidance in cooperation with event organisers. In 2022, a physical guidance experiment was carried out in connection with the Knotfest event, which has resulted in the Handbook for Event and Emergency Guidance, which is available on the City of Turku's event organisers' instructions pages: http://www.turku.fi/tapahtumaopastaminen (in Finnish)
Encouragement can be done by nudging
Carbon-neutral urban logistics
As part of this measure, Turku is preparing its Sustainable City Logistics Plan. The Sustainable Urban Logistics Plan (SULP) guidelines are a policy support tool aimed at many small and medium-sized cities in Europe that may not have the resources to significantly assess and model sustainable urban logistics.
Activation model for sustainable mobility for daycare centres and schools
"Knowledge, skill, stopping to make choices, and the joy of moving!"
Link to Turku service map
The scale-up project has developed a mobility view as part of the Turku service map. The Turku service map allows the user to search for services provided by the city and now also by others using various search criteria. The address can be used, for example, to search for nearby services. Special attention has been paid to the accessibility of information on the service map, and accessibility information is also available for many City offices.
The transport of people and goods causes costs, climate emissions and noise, as well as congestion and dangerous situations. Transports are put out to tender and managed in various administrative silos, which increases costs and underutilises transport capacity.
The Scale-up project will create a generic platform that enables different ticket combinations to make it easier to integrate Föli's tickets into different ticket products. In addition, park-and-ride facilities will be created in the Föli app, and this will be tested in commuting traffic and in connection with various events in 2024.
The city's goal is to enable smooth and diverse mobility by several means of transport. The aim is to make the travel chains of city residents and visitors as efficient as possible and intuitive all year round.
Guided by the Regional Council of Southwest Finland and Valonia, the work focuses on creating an organisational structure model that enables the development of sustainable mobility throughout Southwest Finland. In particular, the aim is to promote the development of regional train services in the region.
The 125th anniversary of Turku Region Water will culminate in the light art installation A story of clean water, which will be available for public viewing after dark on the facade of Turku Region Water’s main facility from 4 to 11 December 2023. The light installation has been designed to tell the story of drinking water in Turku, which has lived through some great changes in its 125 years of history because of urbanisation and changing water reserves.
The colourful lights projected on the sports field surface at the Sports Park bring a new fun addition to the illuminated parks in Turku. The moving images entice people of all ages to playful activities.
The play of light at Sports Park features four different patterns that change every two weeks. In the future, it is possible to expand the range of patterns. The play of light also functions as a play of shadows. As an accessible activity it is suited for anyone.
Come and let the magnificent light decorations by Flowers of Life charm you on 6 to 9 December 2023 at Walo Rooftop Bar above the Turku rooftops. The views are best enjoyed with a glass of mulled wine, for example! An art group that has visited 24 countries all around the world is now showcasing its artwork at Walo Rooftop Bar. The group's UV light art has gained a lot of international acclaim.
Wed 6 December Open doors at the Turku Cathedral at 18:00–21:00, at 21:00 organist Markku Hietaharju plays Finlandia on the main organ of the Turku Cathedral
Fri 8 December at 14:00 The most beautiful Christmas carols (in Finnish)
Sat 9 December at 20:00 The most beautiful Christmas carols in collaboration with SUMU Big Band (in Finnish)
Domcafé opening hours:
Christmas has arrived at Hansa shopping centre and the whole quarter has been dressed in spectacular Christmas lighting. On Thalia square, on the first floor of Hansa by the Aurakatu entrance, you will find Hansa’s own spectacularly Christmassy photo corner. On Independence Day, the stores at Hansa will be open from 12:00 to 18:00. There will also be a lot of versatile Independence Day programme available for visitors.
All kinds of furry characters in their fursuits join the Path of Light now for the second time. Come and greet them at the shores of River Aura!
Circus artist Kai Kuutamo and accordionist Toni Perttula take the audience on an imaginative trip to an unknown and amazing space filled with light and music. The performance combines an acoustic accordion with juggling with instruments of light and different kinds of lamps.
The Collector of Sorrows is a hybrid between a fairy and an angel that roams among people and whispers in the language of fairies. She collects sorrows from around her and lets them vanish into thin air. The Collector of Sorrows wants to leave peace, harmony and joy, lightness and an unhurried feeling behind her.
Choreography and dance: Jonna Aaltonen
Costumes: Marjo Haapasalo
Production: Regional Dance Centre of Western Finland