Kuusisto
Kuusisto is an island and former municipality in Kaarina, Finland. The island is about 12 km long and 2 km wide. Its main attraction is Kuusisto Castle.Photo: Ekhoc, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Farm
- Description: island and former municipality in Kaarina, Finland
- Also known as: “Kusto” and “Kuusisto (island)”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kuusisto castle and Piikkiö railway station.
Kuusisto castle
Photo: Kallerna, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kuusisto Castle was a medieval episcopal castle on the island of Kuusisto in Kaarina, Finland, near Turku. The castle was probably built in the early 14th century, although the site seems to have been a bishop's residence by the 1290s.
Piikkiö railway station
Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Piikkiön rautatieasema is a railway station in the municipality of Kaarina, Piikkiö, near Turku, Finland. It was opened in 1889. The station building, designed by a Finnish architect Bruno Granholm was built in 1888 and later expanded in 1922. Piikkiö railway station is situated 3½ km northeast of Kuusisto.
Pukkila Manor museum
Museum
Photo: AB, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Pukkila Manor museum is situated 3 km north of Kuusisto.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Piikkiö and Littoinen.
Piikkiö
Piikkiö, is a former municipality of Finland. Piikkiö was consolidated with Kaarina on 1 January 2009. It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Southwest Finland region.
Littoinen
Town
Littoinen is a village in south-western Finland, centred on Lake Littoinen. The village is shared between the town of Kaarina and the municipality of Lieto, and it borders the regional centre of Turku. Littoinen is situated 6 km northwest of Kuusisto.
Vaala
Suburb
Vaala is a district in the Itäharju-Varissuo ward of the city of Turku, in Finland. It is located to the east of the city centre, and consists mainly of a strip of low-density residential area between the more densely built suburbs of Varissuo and Lauste. Vaala is situated 7 km northwest of Kuusisto.
Kuusisto
- Categories: island, former municipality of Finland, and agriculture
- Location: Kaarina, Turku, Finland Proper, West Coast, Finland, Nordic countries, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Ukrainian—“Kuusisto” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Kuusisto”
- Danish: “Kustö”
- Danish: “Kuusisto”
- Dutch: “Kuusisto”
- Finnish: “Kuusisto”
- French: “Kuusisto”
- German: “Kustö”
- German: “Kuusisto”
- Icelandic: “Kustö”
- Japanese: “クーシスト”
- Japanese: “クーシスト島”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kustö”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kustø”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kuusisto”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kustö”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kuusisto”
- Norwegian: “Kustö”
- Swedish: “Kustö”
- Swedish: “Kuusisto”
- Turkish: “Kustö”
- Turkish: “Kuusisto”
- Ukrainian: “Куусісто”
- “Kuusisto”
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