Verkkosaari

Verkkosaari is a quarter in Helsinki, Uusimaa. Verkkosaari is situated nearby to the quarter Hermanninranta, as well as near Hermanninmäki.

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Places of Interest

Highlights include Kalasatama Health and Well-being Centre and Kalasatama metro station.

Kalasatama Health and Well-being Centre

Hospital

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The Kalasatama Health Station is a service centre for health and social services in the Kalasatama neighbourhood of the Sörnäinen district in Helsinki, Finland.

Kalasatama metro station

Metro station

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Kalasatama metro station is a ground-level station on the Helsinki Metro, in the capital city of Finland. The station was opened on 1 January 2007, and it serves the eastern part of the central Helsinki district of Sörnäinen's quarter Kalasatama.

Helsinki Prison

Prison

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The Helsinki Prison, also known as the Sörnäinen Prison is a prison located in the Hermanninmäki district of Helsinki, Finland, opened in 1881. At the moment it is the only prison operating in Helsinki proper after the Katajanokka prison was converted to a hotel and its inmates transferred to a new prison in Vantaa, a suburban municipality.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hermanninranta and Kalasatama.

Hermanninranta

Quarter

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Hermanninranta is a quarter.

Kalasatama

Suburb

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Inner East comprises the parts of Helsinki east of the railway, north of Pitkäsilta, south of freeways 4 and 45 and west of Kulosaari. In this part of the city you can see districts of old wooden houses and postmodern, blocky concrete districts built as the "city districts of the future" in the 1970s.