Kupittaa Business
Kupittaa () is a district in Turku, Finland. It is located on the eastern side of the city's centre, around the Kupittaa Park, the first landscaped park in a Finnish city. The district serves as a centre for recreation and business. Turku has recently planned a residential area for 750 residents on the premises of a former HKScan sausage factory. Name The name ''Kupittaa'' may be associated with an old border and may be related to the word , a name for a boundary mark. Another theory is that it comes from the Slavic word for a merchant, . History According to a version of the legend, the first pagan Finns were baptised into Christianity by the Bishop Henry Henry (; ; ; died 20 January 1156). was a medieval English clergyman. He came to Sweden with Cardinal Nicholas Breakspeare in 1153 and was most likely designated to be the new Archbishop of Uppsala, but the independent church province of Swed ... at a spring in Kupittaa Park on Midsummer Day in the year 1155. In the 18t ...
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