Puijo tower

The Puijo tower is an observation tower at the top of Puijo hill in Kuopio, Eastern Finland.<ref name=skyscraperpage>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Opened in 1963, the tower is Template:Convert tall and has a revolving restaurant with 100 seats. It was the first tower with a revolving restaurant in the Nordic countries. The restaurant was an inspiration to Erkki Lindfors, the mayor of Tampere, who got the idea to build a similar one in his home town, resulting in the Näsinneula tower, which opened in 1971. The current Puijo tower has been visited by over 5.5 million tourists.

The current tower is the third overall. When it was completed on 27 July 1963,<ref name="ss">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="hs">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> the second one, built in 1906, was dismantled. The first tower was built in 1856. On the western side of the tower there are three ski jumping hills.

Gallery

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  The first Puijo tower, Template:Circa 1893

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  The second Puijo tower, built in 1900

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  Both the second and third Puijo towers in 1963. The new tower had just been completed and the old one was to be dismantled.

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  View of central Kuopio from the tower, 2003

• Puijo (2008-06-11) All Hills (2).jpg

  The ski jumping hills and Puijo tower, 2008

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  Puijo hill and the tower pictured from Kallavesi lake, 2005

External links

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• Puijo Tower – Official website (in Finnish, English and Russian)