Car Hire Pori Airport

Pori is a city in Finland, some 20 km from the Baltic coast. It is an important industrial and port city and most of the nearly 80,000 people are employed in industry or in the services sector. The location on the River Kokemäenjoki shortly before its confluence with the sea have also led that Pori has a harbour.

The downtown Poris is characterized by buildings from the early 19th century. Like many other Finnish cities the German architect contributed in Pori Carl Ludwig Engel to the construction of many buildings, because this was commissioned by the Russian Tsar to expand certain cities in the Finland part of the Russian Empire at that time and architecturally to embellish.

The Town Hall from the 1830's is a prime example of its architecture and is the main attraction of the city. But also from the year 1903, Juselius-mausoleum is very worth seeing. It are frescoes of the Finnish artist Akseli Gallen-Kallela. This imposing structure of the company of Juselius for his daughter who died in childhood read construction. Mainly due to the liveliest regularly since the 1960s Jazz Festival, Pori is cultural. A theatre and a huge concert hall in its premises often plays the nationally known orchestras of Pori Sinfonietta are also located in this city. With a rental car the hinterland can be conveniently explore. Many visitors to Finland in its spell have drawn the unique scenery with its many lakes and dense forests.