Uusikaupunki

Enjoy a relaxing break in a new town
Uusikaupunki is an idyllic coastal city halfway between Turku and Rauma. Despite its name, Uusikaupunki (Newtown) is over 400 years old, and there is a population of about 15,500 living in this vibrant city with its wooden houses.

The beautiful Kaupunginlahti bayside with its piers, lighting and restaurants calls visitors to the seaside. Get to know the history of the town in the outdoors museum with stories of the town’s seafaring days along the bayside.

Uusikaupunki is filled with unique shops and great restaurants and cafés serving local delicacies. Join a guided walking tour around the old wooden house district of the town centre. This year marks the 300th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Nystad. To commemorate this historic event, the City of Uusikaupunki offers townspeople and visitors alike peace-themed guided walking tours. You can also delve into the town’s history by downloading the Uki AR mobile app and enjoying a trip down memory lane with a 19th century maid. For fans of the local Petäjämäki detective novels, there are also some “murder walks” available in Finnish, hosted by the author Rake Tähtinen himself.
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Art House Pilvilinna

Arts & Culture

Delightful colours, amusing pictures, captivating stories, naivistic art – all this is Art House Pilvilinna. Pilvilinna is a colourful and amusingly unique art house by the sea. The walls, floors and ceilings of Pilvilinna have been painted full of pictures, both inside and outside. Artist Raija Nokkala’s colourful paintings and humoristic sculptures in the main building, art trail, and outbuildings will bring joy and good spirits to anyone seeing them. Art House Pilvilinna is located about 3 km from the centre of Uusikaupunki.

Bonk Museum and Children’s Innovatorium

Arts & Culture

There is no place as wondrous as the Bonk Museum, where you can get to know the history of the Bonk Business Inc. industrial empire. Step into the wild and fantastic world of Bonk. The museum houses things such as defunctioned machinery, cosmic therapy solutions, disinformation systems, and localised black holes. The Bonk Museum is a fantastic journey into the world of imagination. The museum houses a collection of carefully restored Bonk devices and products from mid-1800s to the 1950s.

The Uusikaupunki Automobile Museum

Arts & Culture

The Uusikaupunki Automobile Museum has for long been considered the most popular year-round attraction in town. Many believe that, now even more clearly than before, it is the most important car museum in Finland. The museum houses a wide range of classic cars and many other interesting exhibits from various areas of motoring and motor sports. All in all, the museum houses well over a hundred cars, a good collection of old mopeds, a few motorcycles, and two planes.

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Walking in the middle of old wooden houses is like stepping into a fairytale world: colorful buildings, ornate facades, cobbled streets which create an atmosphere that exudes the past. In the old wooden house towns on the southwest coast of Finland you will find many restaurants, cafes, boutiques and museums. Most of the wooden house towns were built in the 18th and 18th centuries. The areas are well cared for, which guarantees that we are able to admire these unique and historic sites in the future as well.

3 - 5 days

Old Wooden Towns Tour