Casa Rustica - Unique apartment in Port Arthur, Turku. Free street parking in the area

Casa Rustica is located on Korkeavuorenkatu, right in the middle of Turku's most beloved wooden-house district - Port Arthur, or "Portsa." Step out the door straight into an atmosphere that's hard to find anywhere else: cobblestone streets, low Art Nouveau wooden houses and lilac bushes tucked into courtyards. The area was built in the early 1900s as a workers' home village in the middle of the city, and it was precisely this uniqueness that earned Portsa the title of Finland's first-ever District of the Year in 2001. The Finnish Heritage Agency has classified the area as a nationally significant built cultural environment.

Portsa is often called "a village within the city," and you feel it the moment you arrive: neighbours know each other and time seems to slow down. Yet you're only a short walk from Turku's Market Square, the riverside and the cafés of the city centre. Casa Rustica is the perfect base if you want to experience the real, local Turku - not a tourist bubble.