Central Park (, ) is a park in

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 has an area of . The park stretches from Töölönlahti Bay in the south to the border of Helsinki and

Vantaa Vantaa (; , ) is a city in Finland. It is located to the north of the capital, Helsinki, in southern Uusimaa. The population of Vantaa is approximately . It is the most populous municipality in Finland. Vantaa is part of the Helsinki Metropoli ...

in the north. The park is not a gardened one but instead consists mostly of lightly managed woodland crisscrossed by gravel paths. The Paloheinä forest, a northern extension of the park, is Helsinki's main center for outdoor activities.Wikimap of Paloheinä recreation area
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History

Architect

Bertel Jung (Axel) Bertel Jung (11 July 1872 — 12 May 1946) was a Finnish people, Finnish architect and urban planner, notable as Finland's first official zoning architect and a pioneer in the field of city planning. Early life and education Axel Bertel ...

first proposed the idea of a central park in Helsinki in 1911. However, the initial proposal only covered what is now the southernmost part of the park, along with areas that are currently not part of Central Park, such as those in

Kaisaniemi Kaisaniemi () is a part of the centre of Helsinki, Finland, located immediately north of the Helsinki Central railway station and south of Hakaniemi. The most famous part of Kaisaniemi is the Kaisaniemi park, a park covering many hectares right i ...

. A master plan for Central Park was ratified in 1978. A general plan for Helsinki, from 2002, kept it in force.

References

External links

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City of Helsinki official pages on Central Park
Parks in Helsinki Urban public parks {{SouthernFinland-geo-stub