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Uusikaupunki

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Uusikaupunki

Seaport of southern Finland, on the Gulf of Bothnia 65 km/40 mi northwest of Turku, in Turku ja Pori province; population (2002) 11,300.

The Russo-Swedish Treaty of Nystad was signed here in 1721, ending the Great Northern War and giving wide areas of the Baltic to Russia.

The museum Dynamokeskus Bonk opened in Uusikaupunki 1994, documenting the rise of an imaginary industrial dynasty devised by the artist Alvar Gullichsen (1961– ).



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Currently Valmet Automotive is building in Uusikaupunki -- some 230 kilometres northwest of the capital Helsinki -- Boxter and Cayman for German Porsche and electric golf cars for Denmark's Garia.
Uusikaupunki rahulepingu pohjal (1721) kindlustati evangeelsele usule eluoigus ja puutumatus ning kirikule majanduslik ja administratvne iseseisvus.
This particular gentleman (some might say madman) travels regularly from the western Finland town of Uusikaupunki to sample the delights of a John Oster pass or a piece of Kevin Kyle trickery.
 
 
 
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