Vartiokylä
Vartiokylä is a district in the East Helsinki area of Helsinki, the capital of Finland.
Its name is derived from the ruins of an eleventh-century fortress on the Linnanvuori hill in Vartioharju, one of Vartiokylä's subdivisions. The working population of Helsinki started building their houses in the area after the completion of Uusi Porvoontie, a road to the downtown, in the 1930s. Vartiokylä became a part of Helsinki in 1946. Larger-scale construction of suburban housing estates, such as Puotila, started in the 1960s. During the next decade, the building of Itäkeskus began, and it became the largest service centre for Vartiokylä and East Helsinki.
Getting around Vartiokylä the local way
- 814 Pohj. ostoskeskus → Vuosaari (M)
- 815 Isonvillasaarentie → Vuosaari (M)
- 816
- 817 · Nobina Finland
- 816 · HSL
- 815 Vuosaari (M) → Isonvillasaarentie
- 814 Vuosaari (M) → Pohj. ostoskeskus
OpenStreetMap contributors.
- Get inThe ferries from Germany nowadays dock at Vuosaari harbor, which is located in eastern Helsinki.
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Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Helsingin kaupungin Kiinteistötoimiston mittausosasto (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.