The culturally focused exercise routes being built around the banks of the River Aura will introduce Turku through various themes. Cultural exercisers will be able to get to know the city through different Turku wonders, romance, statues, architecture, urban stories or historical locations.
A total of eleven Cultural Exercise Routes will wind along and about the banks of the River Aura, reaching as far as the Vanhalinna estate in Lieto. Various routes allow walking, running, cycling, rowing or paddling. In addition to the provided location-specific cultural routes, cultural exercisers can select their own routes and borrow music from the library for entertainment during the exercise, for example.
The ready-made routes are available through the Central Park of Culture and Exercise project website (see links below) and as printed versions from local libraries and the Tourism Info.
The ready-made routes:
- Hide-and-seek (in Finnish)
- City Tales of Turku (in Finnish)
- Lost in Turku (in Finnish)
- Romantic Turku
- Turku returns to the map
- Turku is... (in Finnish)
- Amazing Turku - strange happenings and alternative sights
- The Heart of Finland
- Stepping it up
- Who is who among the statues
- ArchitecTour
