15 Sights in Kuopio, Finland (with Map and Images)
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Welcome to your journey through the most beautiful sights in Kuopio, Finland! Whether you want to discover the city's historical treasures or experience its modern highlights, you'll find everything your heart desires here. Be inspired by our selection and plan your unforgettable adventure in Kuopio. Dive into the diversity of this fascinating city and discover everything it has to offer.
Sightseeing Tours in Kuopio1. Puijo tower
The Puijo tower is an observation tower at the top of Puijo hill in Kuopio, Eastern Finland. Opened in 1963, the tower is 75 metres (246 ft) tall and has a revolving restaurant with 100 seats. It was the first tower with a revolving restaurant in the Nordic countries. The restaurant was an inspiration to Erkki Lindfors, the mayor of Tampere, who got the idea to build a similar one in his home town, resulting in the Näsinneula tower, which opened in 1971. The current Puijo tower has been visited by over 5.5 million tourists.
2. Kuopion helluntaiseurakunta
Kuopio Pentecostal Church or Kuopio Eelim Church is a Pentecostal church founded in 1927. The leading pastor of the church is Petri Melander. The parish's premises are located in the centre of Kuopio on Vuorikatu. The congregation has about 900 members. The congregation belongs to the Pentecostal Church of Finland.
3. Kuopio Cathedral
Kuopio Cathedral is a stone Neoclassical-style Evangelical Lutheran church in Kuopio, Finland, and the seat of the Diocese of Kuopio. The cathedral was built between 1806 and 1815. There is a bust of Johan Vilhelm Snellman in the square in front of the cathedral.
4. Siskotyttö
Sister Girl is a bronze sculpture designed by sculptor Taru Mäntynen, located in the Market Square at the western end of Kuopio Market Hall. The person in the sculpture looks diagonally in the direction of City Hall, holding a barometer in his hands. The work was unveiled in 1984.
5. Alavan kirkko
Alava Church is a church building in Kuopio. It was designed by André Schütz, a Swiss -born. Schütz's proposal was selected on the basis of the architectural competition. The church was completed in 1968 and represents the modernism of the 1960s.
6. Pisa
Pisa is a danger and a vantage point in Kuopio, Northern Savonia, on the border of the former cities of Nilsia and Juankoski. The Pisa region is a nationally valuable landscape area. The area has rugged and relatively untouched lake Finnish hill landscapes. Pisa and quite a few of the shores of nearby lakes are part of the Natura 2000 network of protected areas.
7. Kuopion taidemuseo
The Kuopio Art Museum is a regional responsibility museum in Northern Savo. The museum used to be the Regional Art Museum and was born after almost 30 years of plans and temporary exhibition space in 1980.
8. Kantti
The Kuopio Museum is an Art Nouveau-style museum building completed in 1907 on the edge of Snellman Park in Vahtivuori, Kuopio, Finland. The Kuopio Museum is the third oldest specially built museum building in Finland after the Helsinki's Ateneum (1887) and the Turku's Art Museum (1904). It has national romantic features and was inspired by Finnish castles, such as St. Olaf's Castle and Vyborg Castle. The building's architect was J. V. Strömberg, who designed a significant number of Kuopio's public buildings at the turn of the 20th century. The Kuopio Museum houses the exhibition facilities of the Kuopio Museum of Natural History and the Kuopio Museum of Cultural History. The museum is visited by an average of about 30,000 visitors a year.
9. Kuopio City Hall
Kuopio City Hall is a town hall in center of the Kuopio, Finland, near the Kuopio Market Square. It was designed by Finnish architects F. A. Sjöström and Josef Stenbäck, and was completed in 1886. Stylistically, the city hall is of the Neo-Renaissance of the second half of the 19th century. The current exterior coloring of the house dates back to 1974. In the most beautiful municipal buildings poll, in 2009 Kuopio City Hall was chosen among the three most beautiful municipal buildings. When completed, it sovereignly controlled the northern edge of the market square, the area around the square was still completely wooden at that time. Spatial changes were common in the first decades of the house. The first floor of the house had a restaurant and a public library.
10. St. Nicholas' Cathedral
St. Nicholas Cathedral is the main church of the Kuopio Orthodox Parish in Väinölänniemi, Kuopio, Finland, and also the seat of the Orthodox Diocese of Karelia. The church was completed in 1903 and is dedicated to the memory of Saint Nicholas. The church, built between 1902 and 1903, was designed by the master builder Aleksander Isakson from Vyborg. The facade is plastered and painted to look like red brick, but there is also genuine brick under the plaster. In appearance, it resembles red-brick simultaneous garrison churches. The iconostasis was made at the Alexander Nevsky Lavra in Saint Petersburg and was donated by Nikolay Bobrikov, the Governor-General of Finland. There are eight bells in the cathedral.
Wikipedia: Saint Nicholas Cathedral, Kuopio (EN), Website, Websiteen
11. J.V. Snellmanin kotimuseo
The J. V. Snellman House Museum is a house museum located in the Väinölänniemi district of Kuopio city centre. The museum displays the family home of J. V. Snellman (1806–81) with its furniture and artefacts. During his years in Kuopio (1845–49), Snellman lived mainly in this house.
12. Kuopion Vapaaseurakunta
Kuopio Free Parish is a free parish operating in Kuopio. The parish was founded in 1909. The leader and pastor of the church is Tapio Annala. The parish's premises are located in Peipponen, Kuopio, on Kemilänrinne. The parish belongs to the Free Church of Finland.
13. Heroes' Park
Kuopio Hero Park is a former cemetery located in the Multimäe district of Kuopio city centre. Located just one block from Kuopio City Hall, Hero Park is located in Kuopio Cathedral Parish. Hatsala Cemetery was founded in 1811 and was originally in use until the 1860s. Subsequently, the cemetery was used to bury the heroic dead who fell in the wars of 1939-45, hence the cemetery's current name.
14. Snellmaninpuisto
The Snellman Park is the oldest park in the city of Kuopio, Finland, located at the Vahtivuori district in the city center between the Kauppakatu and Minna Canthin katu streets, in the adjacent block of Kuopio Cathedral. The park covers an area of 1.4 hectares. Today, the park and its surroundings are part of the larger Kuopio National City Park, established in late 2017. The park is named after J. V. Snellman (1806–1881), the senator and the Fennoman, who influenced the affairs of the Grand Duchy from Kuopio, among other places.
15. Kuopion sotaveteraanimuseo
The Kuopio War Veterans Museum is a military history museum located in the Hatsala district of the city of Kuopio, in the old barracks area of Kuopio. The museum presents and preserves the war veteran tradition of Kuopio.
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