Allas Pool is a marine

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Katajanokka Katajanokka (; ) is a neighbourhood of Helsinki, Finland, with around 4000 inhabitants in 2005. The district is located adjacent to the immediate downtown area, though in the first major town plan for Helsinki from the mid-18th century, the area ...

Helsinki Helsinki () is the Capital city, capital and most populous List of cities and towns in Finland, city in Finland. It is on the shore of the Gulf of Finland and is the seat of southern Finland's Uusimaa region. About people live in the municipali ...

Finland Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland to the south, ...

. It was opened on 1 September 2016 on the site of the former Kanavaterminaali building. The spa has three pools built on top of the sea: a children's pool, a warm pool and a seawater pool, as well as a

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'' 1 September 2016. Accessed on 2 September 2016. The main building of Allas Sea Pool was completed in spring 2017. The building has a roof terrace spanning its entire roof. With 1,500 places, Allas Pool is the largest terrace in Helsinki. The spa is intended to be open all year round.

History

There had been proposals of a spa in Katajanokka to the Finnish Bureau of Sports and Exercise already in 2006. Construction of Allas Sea Pool was given a permit in August 2015. The Ministry for Labour and Entrepreneurship supported the project with 329 thousand euros. The city of Helsinki, Finnvera, and Tekes gave the project a loan of 3 million euro in total. In addition, the project was financed with group funding, which gathered 810 thousand euros. Over 400 people participated in the group funding. One of the pools was built on the Teijo docks of Western Shipyard in

Salo Salo or Salò may refer to: Places Finland *Salo, Finland, a town in Western Finland **Salo sub-region, a subdivision of Finland Proper and one of the Sub-regions of Finland since 2009 *An old name of Saloinen, a former municipality in Ostroboth ...

, where it was transferred by sea to Katajanokka in a little under one day.

2022 accident

In mid-January 2022, the pool damaged in Viking Line Gabriella's pier collision. The target number of visitors in Allas Sea Pool is 320,000 per year. In 2017, the spa reached 142,000 visitors.Allas Sea Poolin ensimmäinen vuosi oli menestys – altaita tulossa lisää
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''. Accessed on 28 April 2018.

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Official site
* {{Helsinki Cityscape Spas Lidos Saunas Katajanokka Buildings and structures in Helsinki

History

2022 accident

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