Kuopio
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Airplane
One hour's flight from Helsinki. Kuopio Airport(IATA: KUO; ICAO: EFKU) is located 14km north of Kuopio and most flights have bus connection to city centre. Fares €5 adults, 2,5€ children. Taxi to city centre costs €18. Airport served by Finnair, Fincomm Airlines, Blue1 and Air Baltic which has flights to Riga.
Train
About 4-5 hours from Helsinki. Tickets and timetables information VR
Bus
Good connections from all directions. Timetables, rates and tickets information Matkahuolto
Car
National main road 5 from Helsinki and main road 9 from Turku.
City of Kuopio
City Hall is located in Kuopio, Kuopio, in the center of the square edge of Multi-hill district. The City Hall building began in 1882 . City Hall was completed in 1886 . The house was designed by FA Sjöström and J. Stenback .
When completed, it reigned supreme Market Square North side, which was still at that time otherwise completely wooden, you can repeat. The house design was launched back in 1875 . The design competition was also organized, but the competition was decided to abandon the work.
St. Nicholas Cathedral
St. Nicholas Cathedral of the Finnish Orthodox Church in the bishop's seat Kuopio . The church is consecrated to St. Nicholas' memory. Years in 1902-1903 built the church was designed by a builder from Vyborg Alexander Isakson . The material is painted on the facade look like red brick , but the plaster over the bricks can be found, however, aitokin. The iconostasis is made in St. Petersburg Alexander Nevsky lavrassa and it was donated by the Governor-General Bobrikov . Clocks have eight pieces.The Church consecrated the second Finnish Orthodox Archbishop Nikolaj .
Vehmersalmi Church
Vehmersalmi church is Josef Stenbäck church designed Vehmersalmi Kuopio . The church was built in 1920 and was built of brick. Vehmersalmi have once served as three brick factories. altarpiece is August Ripatti , " Jesus in Gethsemane . " The church seats 650 people. Shape of the church has a tower church long and has a high pitched roof . Kangasala urkurakentamon in 1935 made the organ sound is 15-fold.
Style of the church represents the post- Art Nouveau . The Church refers to the asymmetrical layout of nationalism , and details such as tile decorations represent the related Historicism .
Kuopio Science Park
Kuopio Science Park is located in Kuopio, Savilahti district. Colleges and a university hospital in addition to science park is also a large number of sectoral research. Technopolis Kuopio, in turn, operates mainly in areas of ICT , working in the field of SMEs, but also a part of higher education and research functions located there.
The Science Park is the region is quite significant, because a large part of the Kuopio jobs, as well as export and international companies are located there. In addition to studying the area around 7 000 university students,will be up to 10,000
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