Category: Our Porvoo

Integration Services in Porvoo work closely with Porvoo Adult Education Centre and other actors. 

Porvoo has long had the status of the foremost Christmas City of Southern Finland. The city has been the official goodwill city of Santa Claus since 2019 and even has its own Christmas elf, Fredrik Flodbåt.  

Marjo Rantala started as the director of the City of Porvoo Sports Services in February 2024. She encourages everyday exercise and learning an active lifestyle at one’s own pace. 

Apart from the old, fine pine trees, the Edelfeltinranta area looks nothing special to the layman’s eye. Instead, Porvoo’s urban planning manager, Jarkko Lyytinen, sees through a grey spring day to the future, where Edelfeltinranta will be a pleasant and ecological residential area by the sea for 300 new residents.