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Turku City Office is located in Turku, Finland and is supervised by the Mayor. Its tasks include preparing the decisions of the City Council, and the City Board and ...
Turku City Hall (Finnish: Turun kaupungintalo, Swedish: Åbo stadshus) is a Neo-Renaissance building on the bank of the Aura River in Turku, Finland. The City Council of Turku convenes there. [1] The mayor worked in an Art Nouveau building near the City Hall, the Turku City Office, until 2011. It was originally designed by Charles Bassi from ...
Turku is Finland's oldest city. [1] It is not known when Turku was granted city status. Pope Gregory IX first mentioned the town of Aboa in his Bulla in 1229, and this year is now used as the founding year of the city. [4] [5] [14] Turku was the most important city in the eastern part of the Kingdom of Sweden (today's Finland).
Turku metropolitan area or Turku region (Finnish: Turun seutu, Swedish: Åbo region) is the metropolitan area around the city of Turku in Finland.The joint municipal authority of the Turku city region (Finnish: Turun kaupunkiseutu, Swedish: Åbo stadsregion) consists of six municipalities: Turku, Kaarina, Lieto, Naantali, Raisio and Rusko. [2]
Turku City Office; Turku City Theatre; Turku Concert Hall; Turku Main Library; Turku Market Hall; Turku Prison; Turku Student Village; Turku Synagogue; V.
Articles related to the city of Turku (Swedish: Åbo), Finland. ... Pages in category "Turku" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total.
City Centre on a map of Turku. City Centre (Keskusta in Finnish, Centrum in Swedish) is a ward (suuralue, storområde) of Turku, Finland, also known as Ward 1.The ward's boundaries correspond approximately to those of the city's central business district, and it borders all the other wards of Turku except for Maaria-Paattinen (Ward 9).
It is assumed that the City of Turku administrative centre was headquartered at the Old Town Hall since the 14th century. The most famous of the Turku town halls was the stone building planned by master bricklayer Samuel Berner, finished in 1736. Berner's town hall was destroyed by the fire of 1827, along with its bell tower. A private house ...