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For three days in July, Finland's oldest and largest annual rock festival - held since 1969
and attracting 100,000-strong crowds - takes over Ruissalo island.
Down by the Laituri
MUSIC
(DBTL; 040-086 0446;
www.dbtl.fi
;
tickets €22.50-79)
By the river, this rock festival in late July/early August attracts mainly Finnish bands.
Turku Jazz
MUSIC
( 040-582-9366;
www.turkujazz.fi
;
tickets free-€32.50)
Hot bebop and smoking sax hits the city from early to mid-August.
Turku Music Festival
MUSIC
(
www.tmj.fi
;
tickets free-€148.50)
From early August, this two-week extravaganza offers an eclectic mix of classical and
contemporary music and opera in amazing venues including Turku Cathedral.
Sleeping
Turku has scads of chain hotels such as Sokos and Scandic, but some unique places too.
Ruissalo Camping
CAMPGROUND
6-person cabin €68/125/165; May-Sep; )
On idyllic Ruissalo island, 10km west of the city centre, this sprawling campground has
gently sloping grassy sites and a great choice of cabins, along with saunas, a cafe and
Turku's closest beaches (including a naturist beach). Book way,
way
ahead for the Ruis-
rock festival and Midsummer. Bus 8 runs from the kauppatori.
Laivahostel Borea
HOSTEL
€124; )
