The Path of Light illuminated Turku and its limited version continues to bring us joy

The Path of Light event kept its promise and brought light not only to the city but also to people’s minds. The event received a lot of positive feedback from both visitors and the event artists.

Piispankatu turns into a cosy winter square

The section of Piispankatu next to the Svante Dahlström parkette will be transformed into a cosy winter square from 28 November 2022 until 28 February 2023. The winter square will be a place for residents, townspeople and tourists to relax and spend time. The purpose of the experiment is to encourage the city’s residents to enjoy outdoor activities and move around, even in winter.

The Path of Light glows and charms visitors in Turku from 3 to 6 December

This year’s light event in Turku will be bigger and more international than last year. The spectacular works of light art will be located near the River Aura. They will draw on the maritime nature of the city and take advantage of the open landscape along the riverbed and views opening up from different directions.

There are already three Event Carpets in Turku this summer

Want to organize a street performance? Or reserve a place to sell, for example, flea market items, handicrafts or other products? On the Event Carpet you can enable a piece of urban space from Rettinginrinne, Puutori or The Summer Street portion of Kristiinankatu.

Top contenders in the architect competition

The contenders in the architect competition for the planning of the new passenger terminal have been selected. In addition to the four Finnish contenders there is one group from England among the chosen offices.

Development measures in the Old Town of Turku are progressing

On 22 November, the Turku City Board approved the objectives and the concrete development measures of the Old Town strategic development project. The key objective is to make the Old Town area a coherent entity that is interesting and well-known internationally and locally.

The City of Turku conducts a through traffic study to support the development of the city centre

A HUPMOBILE minipilot study measuring and analyzing through traffic in the centre of Turku is running 16.8.-7.9.2021.

The HUPMOBILE webinar series introduces sustainable mobility in port areas

City of Turku in cooperation with UBC Sustainable Cities Commission organised a two-day HUPMOBILE webinar series to inspire the exchange of best practices in promoting sustainable mobility in the port cities of the Baltic Sea Region.

Enlivening Turku city centre through cooperation between the City and its partners

The City of Turku is working with its partners to enliven the city centre area through new kinds of activities and events as well as solutions that develop the urban environment. The ideas were yielded by the open Sytytä Turku (Ignite Turku) competition. The competitive method, which was being tested for the first time, generated a wide range of proposals, and the winning submissions will now be developed towards execution.

The future of Linnanniemi fascinates the Turku residents

The people of Turku gave their opinion on the successful entries of the Linnanniemi international idea competition and shared their own vision of the future of the area in a pop-up exhibition held from 30th of October to 15th of November 2020. A report of the exhibition, side events and the public comments collected during the event has now been published as an online publication.