Tourist information

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Contact details:

Loimaan seudun Matkailuoppaat (Aura, Oripää, Pöytyä): https://www.lsmoppaat.fi/oppaat/

Taina Jaakkola 040-8258 080 (Oripää, Pöytyä)

Lieto-oppaat ry (Lieto): www.lieto-oppaat.fi

Eliisa Lehti 0400-528 593 (Lieto) & Ensi Kulta 044-4848147 (Lieto, Aura, Pöytyä, Oripää)

More information about municipal tourist information can be found lower on this website.

040 6310 464

info@aurajoentie.fi

Anna-Mari Alkio
Kehittämisjohtaja
Auran kunta

The Aurajoentie Tourist Road

A new tourist road was established in Finland for the first time in a decade, and it is not just any road. The Aurajoentie road travels the entire 70 kilometres from Turku to Oripää in our national landscape in the Aurajokilaakso. The Aurajoentie Tourist Road has its own logo.

Aurajoentie is a historic Varkaantie that runs along the west side of the Aurajoki. Aurajoentie is a national landscape and a nationally valuable built cultural environment (RKY) with dozens of interesting landscape and cultural sites and service companies. Few Helsinki residents know where Lieto, Aura, Pöytyä or Oripää are located – but everyone knows where the Aurajoki is. The tourist road is likely to raise awareness of the sub-region, crystallise its appeal and create a nationally renowned brand for both tourists and residents and entrepreneurs. The tourist road is primarily a tourist product.

Lieto tourist information

Read more about Lieto’s tourist information: www.visitlieto.fi

Aura tourist information

Get familiar with Aura’s tourist information in Auraamo, Turuntie 1, 21380 Aura. There you will find maps, brochures, SUP board rentals and information for tourists.

Pöytyä’s tourist information

Get to know Pöytyä’s tourist information in Riihipuoti, which is right next to Aurajoentie Tourist Road. Riihipuoti is located in address Turuntie 596, 21870 Riihikoski. It is open on weekdays from 9.30 a.m. to 5.30 p.m., Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sundays from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The wind cabinet is open every day from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Oripää’s tourist information

Read more about Oripää’s tourist information in Oripää’s library, Rasinkuja 2, 32500 Oripää. Phone number: +358400 215 582, e-mail: kirjasto(a)oripaa.fi, Open: Monday from 12.30 p.m. to 7.30 p.m., Tuesday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., closed on Wednesdays, Thursday from 12.30 p.m. to 6.30 p.m., Friday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., on the eve of public holidays from 10 am to 3 p.m.

HISTORICAL AURAJOENTIE

Aurajoentie is the historical road from Turku and Southwest Finland to Satakunta in the region of Southwest Finland in Finland. It is one of the nationally significant built cultural environments in Finland as defined by the National Board of Antiqu immigration in 2009. In 2021, the road was approved as the Aurajoentie Tourist Road (Aurajoentien Matkailutie).

ROAD`S CHARM

“The Aura River Landscape Road – The Aurajoki has many faces: the landscapes of the river valley have taken shape over centuries, even millennia, and built a whole with alternating prehistory, diverse nature and a ribbon of the country’s oldest settlement and work. No wonder the Aurajokilaakso has been designated as one of Finland’s national landscapes.” Viri Teppo-Pärnä, TIEN LUMO – Aurajoen maisematie 2009.

UNIQUE RIVERSIDE

The Aurajokilaakso is a national landscape and one of the oldest cultural landscapes in Finland. Aurajoki originates from the gravel ridge of Oripäänkangas and travels to Oripää, Pöytyä, Aura, Lieto and Kaarina for a distance of 70 kilometres to Turku and the Archipelago Sea. The river begins as a narrow stream and winds deep into field openings and villages. The oldest fields have been cultivated since the Iron Age, when some villages have also been inhabited.