Salo tourist information
It is easy to come to Salo. Buses and trains run day and night between Helsinki and Turku, stopping in Salo at least once every hour or at best many times an hour.
From Salo you can get to any place at any time. There is a 24-hour bus service to the Helsinki-Vantaa airport leaving every hour, and the airport of Turku is just a 45-minute drive away. You can also reach Salo by sea, arriving right next to the market place in the town centre. It is true, though, that boat traffic is no longer quite as busy as it was in the 17th century, when Salo had one of the biggest export ports in Finland.
More than two million Finns live within a 100-km radius of Salo. This town is close to everything and everyone. Salo is known to have been inhabited as early as 7,000 years ago. Today, Salo has about 25,000 inhabitants, and more people continue to come.
Salo nearly became an electronics town already in the 1920’s when two residents of Salo started to manufacture wireless sets. They did this because low-quality radios often did not pick up radio waves very well in the town centre due to the surrounding stony hills. From radio sets, the manufacturers moved on to radio telephones and televisions, and then to mobile phones.
When two people living in Salo meet each other, it is quite likely that one of them does not speak the Salo dialect. More than half of the inhabitants have moved here from other parts of Finland, and many of them are from other countries. In relation to its population, Salo is one of the most international towns in Finland.
Salo aerial map
Please click on any icon on the Salo aerial tourist map, to find close by places, offering hotels and tourist information. You can zoom in and zoom out our touristical map as well as switch between satelite and map view of Salo.
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