Traditions of Turku:Turku day

The 17th of September is the date for a very important celebration here in Turku.

The city is super busy and many people come here from Finland in order to celebrate and honour the centenarian Finland.

In the centre, you could take part in a prize draw and ask for programme recommendations at the Suomi Finland 100 information point. The main squares had markets and music events.

Museums and galleries were open,  and most of them offered free entry for anyone who wanted to visit them.

My favourite museum was the Handcraft museum of the city, Luostarinmaki.

The museum is very special, the area where it is situated is the only continuous district of wooden houses that survived the fire of 1827 in Turku.
The houses are over 200 years old and still standing in their original building sites.
Visiting the museum is possible to litterally travel in the past and see how life looked like in Finland 200 years ago.

In my opinion, the best part and the culmination of the day was the traditional fireworks from Samppalinnanmäki at 9 p.m.
It was just Amazing to sit next to the river Aura and enjoy the show.