Keskuskatu

Keskuskatu
Finland Swedish: Centralgatan
Keskuskatu at night, decorated for Christmas 2020
Keskuskatu is located in Helsinki (mainland)
Keskuskatu
Location within Greater Helsinki
Former name(s)Hakasalmenkatu
Finland Swedish: Hagasundsgatan
Length284 m (932 ft)[citation needed]
Width21 m (69 ft)
LocationKluuvi, Vironniemi, Helsinki, Finland
Postal code00100
Nearest metro stationRautatientorin metroasema
Coordinates60°10′08″N 24°56′34″E / 60.16902°N 24.94291°E / 60.16902; 24.94291
South endPohjoisesplanadi
Major
junctions
Aleksanterinkatu
North endKaivokatu
Construction
Commissioned13 June 1927 (1927-06-13)
Inauguration12 December 1928;
96 years ago
 (1928-12-12)
Other
DesignerEliel Saarinen
StatusPedestrianized
Keskuskatu, then Hakasalmenkatu, in the 1900s. To the right is the Skoha house, later dismantled to make room for the shopping centre, City-Center.

Keskuskatu, literally "Central Street" (Finland Swedish: Centralgatan), is a two block-long pedestrian street in the centrally-located Kluuvi neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland. Along the street are located (from south to north): the Stockmann department store, the Rautatalo building, Domus Litonii, the World Trade Center and the Citycenter Mall, nicknamed "Makkaratalo" (lit. "sausage house"). Keskuskatu begins at Pohjoisesplanadi, across from the Swedish Theatre, and ends when it meets Kaivokatu, across from Helsinki Central Station.[1] It is intersected just south of its midpoint by Aleksanterinkatu.

  1. ^ "Keskuskatu" [Central Street]. Helsinki Map Service (in Finnish). Retrieved August 11, 2022.

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