Live Like a Local is a guide that brings together helpful tips and suggestions for the Turku region, with both regular attractions as well as activities to help you create your unique, custom programme. For each day of the week we have collected our own suggestions that are easy to include.

The City of Turku will develop the Science Park area as an international concentration of expertise and as a showcase of top competence with ambitious objectives.

By 2050 the commercial centre will be expanding, the old town will turn into a European oasis for encounters and the eastern bank of the River Aura will function as a vivid platform for a new kind of combination of culture, restaurants and work.

Turku is home to 40,000 students and six higher education institutions. Turku invites you to come and see what’s happening in Finland's best student city.

The reputation of Turku as a food destination is soaring. The Aura riverfront reveals one top restaurant after another, and many summer events focus exclusively on the worship of food.