Kupittaa

Kupittaa (Finnish; Kuppis in Swedish) is a district in Turku, Finland. It is located on the eastern side of the city's centre, around the Kupittaa Park, the first landscaped park in a Finnish city. The area hosts, among other things, numerous sports facilities (such as the Veritas Stadion, a Finnish baseball stadium, a velodrome and an ice hockey arena), the Kupittaa Open-Air Swimming Pools, several large shops, a railway station and Turku Science Park. The district has no permanent residents.

According to legend, the first pagan Finns were baptised into Christianity by the Bishop Henry at a spring in Kupittaa Park on Midsummer Day in the year 1155.