Turku is Finland’s oldest city, centrally located at
the crossroads of the Baltic Sea. The city served as Finland’s gateway to the
world since the Hanseatic times.
The Hanseatic League dominated commercial activity in the
Baltic Sea in the Middle Ages. The League was founded by north German towns and
German merchant communities abroad to protect their mutual trading interests.
In the 14th century the main trade route from Finland
to the Hanseatic towns in North Germany went via Tallinn. Traders from Turku
sailed to Tallinn where they could do business with Hanseatic merchants
travelling east and west.
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