Kaarina

Kaarina lies along the shores of Finland’s Archipelago Sea, where wooded mainland neighbourhoods meet cultivated fields, inlets and a scatter of islands east of Turku. Although part of the Turku urban area, it retains a distinctly coastal setting shaped by the southwestern Finnish archipelago. On Kuusisto Island stand the ruins of Kuusisto Castle, a medieval residence of the bishops of Turku; its surviving stone walls recall the period when ecclesiastical power was centred on the nearby city. Kaarina also includes the former municipality of Piikkiö, merged into the city in 2009, adding rural districts to its urban edge. Trace Kaarina’s place in the Turku region and the Archipelago Sea by browsing webcams nearby.

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