Excursions

Please book the excursions you wish to participate in through the online excursion registration form.

Guided tour to Turku Cathedral

Nota bene! The time has changed due to the cancellation of the Kakola Prison tour!

Wednesday 26 May 12:00–14:00

Meeting place: the front stairs of the Cathedral, at 12:00 am.

The tour is free of charge but to secure a place, please make a booking!

More than 700 years old, Turku Cathedral is now the mother church of the Lutheran Church in Finland, and the country’s national shrine. It is familiar, even dear to every Finn. Its bells chime at noon over the radio throughout Finland.

Turku Cathedral was inaugurated in 1300 and it was dedicated to the Virgin Mary and Finland's first bishop, St. Henrik. The cathedral monuments and its hundreds of interesting details tell about the history of the Finnish people. A famous and beloved Queen Kaarina Maununtytär (1550-1612), a peasant girl crowned a queen as a wife of Carl XIV of Sweden, and many bishops and military commanders have been laid to rest under the magnificent arches.

The tour will end at the Cafe Aula, Aboa vetus museum, for coffee and tea (at your own cost) where you will have an opportunity to take a tour of the interesting archeological museum (admission charge).

Guided tour in Kakola-Prison

The Kakola Prison tour has been cancelled due to lack of participants! In the case you have already paid for the tour, you will be contacted by the organizers.

Excursion to Kurjenrahka National park

Sunday 30 May 14:30–19:30

The excursion will start on Sunday immediately after the closing ceremony at the end of the conference and will last approximately 4-5 hours.

The area of the Kurjenrahka National Park is 35 km north of the City of Turku. It consists mainly of swamp but it also includes the Pukkipalo primeval area. Pukkipalo has been mostly undisturbed for over 150 years, so here you can see the last fragments of the old forests as they were before industrial age. The mires are in their natural state and the old-growth forests can develop undisturbed.

Maximum of participants: 8
Cost: 20 euro
Duration: four to five hours
More information about the excursion contact: Mr. Tapio Onnela, tapio.onnela@utu.fi.

Excursion to Brinkhall Manor

Sunday 30 May 14:30–17:30

The tour departs from Kaivokatu 12 (conference site) at 14.30, and returns to the centre of town at approximately 17.30.

A fantastic chance to visit the unique eighteenth-century Brinkhall Manor. The excursion takes you to the island of Kakskerta, 17 km from the centre of Turku, where the Brinkhall Manor and its many outbuildings, gardens and parks are located. The history of the Manor dates back to the 1790s when Gabriel Bonsdorff, a professor of medicine and natural sciences at the Royal Academy of Turku, designed and built it in the modern style of that time. The main building is one of the oldest examples of neoclassical architecture in Finland.

The tour is organised by the MA students of Cultural History in co-operation with the students of Puppet Theatre at Turku Arts Academy. The tour price includes entrance to the manor, a puppet theatre performance, coffee break and transportation.

Cost: 25 euro
For more information on the Brinkhall Manor see: http://www.kulttuuriperinto.fi/index.php?lang=en

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