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Apart from these, there are also several historical museums that display the city's medieval period, such as the , which has been a functional historical museum since 1881, and the museum, built in the late 1990s over the 14th century site. The region was originally called Suomi Finland , which later became the name for the whole country. The newest bridge is Kirjastosilta 'library bridge' , a pedestrian-only bridge built in 2013. The building was significant both for its location and history: having stood on one of the most valuable lots in the city center since 1878, the building had, for example, served as the first main building of the University of Turku. The wooden one- to two-story houses that were the dominant mode of building in the city were mostly demolished in the 1950s and 1960s to both enable more efficient building and to ease vehicle traffic.

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The number of services has fallen and only the railways towards Tampere and Helsinki are now in use. As the oldest town in the country Turku was the most important city in Finland, a status it retained for hundreds of years throughout the centuries under the rule the Kingdom of Sweden. The is an annual sporting event in Turku, named after the world-famous runner , who was born and raised in the city. This center will connect all public transportation from commuter trains to long distance buses. After the war Finland became an autonomous grand duchy of the 1809 under the direct rule of the Czar and the capital of the autonomous was moved to 1812. As of June 2015 , over 280,000 people were registered as being without employment in Finland.

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The and the held on the island of are among the oldest of its kind in. After the fire, a new and safer city plan was drawn up by , who had also designed the new capital, Helsinki. Aurakatu area in the 1910s In 1918, a new university, the — the only university in Finland — was founded in Turku. The declaration ceremony begins with the hymn Jumala ompi linnamme 's and continues with the Declaration of Christmas Peace read from a roll in Finnish and Swedish. In 1640, the first in Finland, the , was founded in Turku. Due to its location, Turku is a notable commercial and passenger with over three million passengers traveling through the each year to and.

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The discussion was moderated by Dan Lolax, journalist at Åbo Underrättelser. Other buildings whose demolition was seen as scandalous, either already at the time of action or proved to be so in later years, include The Nobel House subject to the very first photograph ever taken in Finland and the building of Old Hotel Börs which was built in jugendstil in 1909 by Frithiof Strandell. In addition, a number of local stations, e. Auran Aallot, Radio Sata and Radio Robin Hood are operational. There are also daily ferry services from the to Sweden and the , operated by and. Situated by the and sheltered by the islands of the , Turku has a climate Dfb.

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The city enjoyed good connections with other countries and cities, especially since the 1940s with across the. The railway stations currently used for passenger traffic are the in , and two smaller stations in and the. The Pope first mentioned the town Aboa in his Bulla in 1229 and the year is now used as the foundation year of the city. In the 1960s, Turku became the first Western city to sign a agreement with in the , leading to greater inter-cultural exchange and providing a new meaning to the city's 'gateway' function. The declaration takes place on the , Finland's official 'Christmas City', at noon on Christmas Eve. Turku was also the meeting place for the in 1676. The region includes, in addition to the city itself the following municipalities: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , and.

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The , a small that transports pedestrians and across the river without payment, is a well known feature of the city. By an agreement signed between the city of Turku and the , takes care of the teaching in the international school. It plays in the Finnish top league,. For example, the building of Hotel Phoenix that stood on corner of the was torn down to make way for a large, multistory apartment building in 1959. Click on the play button in the centre of the video to start the recorded stream from Imagine! The free-of-charge Turkulainen newspaper is also among the most popular newspapers, together with the local edition of and the national evening.

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There are, however, some projects that are based on the district divisions, particularly in the eastern part of the city, where unemployment is high in certain areas. National Land Survey of Finland. The city centre and most of the suburban areas lie in the middle, separated from the less densely populated northern rural areas by the Turku , that forms part of. As this pattern does not appear in any other Swedish place names in Finland, etymologists believe there could be a different explanation. In the aftermath of the , the town was the site of the. In 1996, it was declared the official Christmas City of Finland. Panelists were Maryan Abdulkarim activist and journalist , Li Andersson Chairperson of the Left Alliance , Tarja Halonen President of Finland 2000—2012 , Stefan Ingves Governor of Sveriges Riksbank , Alf Rehn Professor at the University of Southern Denmark and Göran Rosenberg author and journalist.

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The city's cultural centre organises a number of regular events, most notably the in July each year. The City of Turku is planning to combine these two in a new greater station complex in the near future. Turku, as a town, was never founded. Islands such as , and , forming the southern part of the city, are also sparsely populated and mostly contain summer residences, with the exception of some districts in Hirvensalo which are currently growing into. The government offices that remained in Turku were finally moved to the new capital after the , which almost completely destroyed the city in 1827. The average year-round temperature is 5. The current chair of the city board is from National Coalition Party.

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Finland's most successful player, , was born and lives in the neighbouring county of Turku Titans is a lacrosse club based in Turku with a relevantly successful history with three silver medals and one gold medal in the national lacrosse league in Finland. The has been a tradition in Finland from the Middle Ages every year, except in 1939 due to the. Like all other Finnish cities, Turku does not collect information about the ethnic and religious makeup of its population. The city's identity stems from its status as the oldest city in Finland and the country's first capital. The bus rates are the same when traveling within these municipalities. Like much of southern Finland, the city experiences warm summers, with ranging up to 30 °C 86 °F , and relatively cold winters with frequent. These are something of a Finnish cultural tradition see , and people often travel long distances across Finland to Turku just to take a across the Gulf of Bothnia.