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Please visit http://www.coupemondiale2015.fi  for General Information about Turku, Accommodation, a Blog, event registration and more. Links and information will be added as it becomes available, so we invite you to check back often.

Getting to Turku

By Plane

  • Turku Airport is located 15 minutes from the city centre and is the most comfortable way to arrive. Star Alliance and Oneworld networks have daily flights via Helsinki, Stockholm and Copenhagen. In addition to them, low-cost airline Wizzair has direct flights from Budapest and Gdansk.
  • Helsinki-Vantaa Airport has wide range of direct flights from all around the world, especially from Asia. If you can’t find a good connecting flight to Turku, you can take a direct bus from Helsinki airport to Turku. The bus drive takes 2,5 hours with departures every hour.
  • Tampere-Pirkkala Airport is the home of Ryanair in Finland. If you arrive at Tampere, you can take an airport bus to Tampere railway station (30 mins) and continue with a train to Turku (2 hours).

By Train

  • If you travel to Finland by train (for example from Moscow or St. Petersburg), you can book tickets to Turku. Turku main railway station is at the city centre, just next to the Logomo venue and only 5-6 blocks away from the hotels.

By Ferry

  • The most exciting way to arrive to Turku is to take a ferry from Stockholm. You can enjoy the entertainment, food and drinks on board while the ship goes through the most wonderful archipelago. Ferries departure in the morning and in the evening. The voyage takes approximately 10 hours.
Accommodation in Turku
http://www.coupemondiale2015.fi/travelling-to-turku/hotels-and-accommodation

Please visit the Coupe Mondiale 2015 website for information about where to stay. You will find information about the Radisson Blue Marina Palace Hotel and Hotelli Seurahuone, with more Hotels to be added.
Welcome to Turku
Turku is a city on the southwest coast of Finland at the mouth of the Aura River, in the region of Finland Proper. Turku, as a town, was settled during the 13th century and founded most likely at the end of the 13th century, making it the oldest city in Finland. It quickly became the most important city in Finland, a status it retained for hundreds of years. After Finland became part of the Russian Empire (1809) and the capital of the Grand Duchy of Finland was moved to Helsinki (1812), Turku continued to be the most populous city in Finland until the end of the 1840s, and it remains a regional capital and an important business and cultural centre.
 
Because of its long history, it has been the site of many important events and has extensively influenced Finnish history. Along with Tallinn, the capital city of Estonia, Turku was designated the European Capital of Culture for 2011. In 1996 it was declared the official Christmas City of Finland.
 
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Due to its location, Turku is a notable commercial and passenger seaport with over three million passengers travelling through the Port of Turku each year to Stockholm and Mariehamn.
 
With a population of almost 200,000, Turku is the sixth largest city in Finland. The city is officially bilingual with approximately 6% of the city havin Swedish as a mother-tongue.
 
Cultural venues in Turku include several theatres, cinemas, and art galleries, and a city philharmonic orchestra. The city's cultural centre organises a number of regular events, most notably the Medieval Market in July each year. Turku is also the official Christmas city of Finland, and 'Christmas Peace' in Finland is declared on every 24 December from the Brinkkala Hall balcony. The Turku Music Festival and the rock festival Ruisrock (held on the island of Ruissalo) are among the oldest of its kind in Scandinavia. The city also hosts another rock festival, Down by the Laituri, and one of the largest electronic music festivals in Northern Europe, UMF (Uuden Musiikin Festivaali, "New Music Festival"), in addition to a vibrant nightlife, centred on the Market Square.
 
There are also numerous museums, such as the Turku Art Museum and the Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art. The Åbo Akademi University maintains the Sibelius Museum, which is the only museum in Finland specialising in the field of music. Apart from these, there are also several historical museums that display the city's medieval period, such as the Turku Castle, which has been a functional historical museum since 1881, and the Aboa Vetus museum, built in the late 1990s over the 14th century archaeological site. The Luostarinmäki handicrafts museum, converted from residential buildings that survived the Great Fire of Turku in 1827, was the first Scandinavian venue to receive the "Golden Apple" tourism award.
 
Turku is European Capital of Culture in 2011, and the city council has approved numerous projects to boost the city's image in preparation for that status.
 
The Declaration of Christmas Peace has been a tradition in Finland from the Middle Ages every year, except in 1939 due to the Winter War. The declaration takes place on the Old Great Square of Turku, Finland's official 'Christmas City', at noon on Christmas Eve. The declaration ceremony begins with the hymn Jumala ompi linnamme (Martin Luther's Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott) and continues with the Declaration of Christmas Peace read from a parchment roll in Finnish and Swedish.
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