Vartiokylä () is a
neighbourhood
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in the
East Helsinki
East Helsinki (, ) is an area in Helsinki, Finland, usually thought to comprise the city's eastern and south-eastern major districts (, ), including the districts of Vartiokylä, Myllypuro, Mellunkylä, Vuosaari, Herttoniemi, Laajasalo a ...
area of Helsinki, the capital of Finland. Its name is derived from the ruins of an eleventh-century fortress on the Linnanvuori hill in
Vartioharju, one of Vartiokylä's subdivisions. The working population of Helsinki started building their houses in the area after the completion of Uusi Porvoontie, a road to the downtown, in the 1930s. Nowadays the area has a few high density apartment areas as well as houses. Vartiokylä became a part of Helsinki in 1946. Most of the services in the district are located in the subdivision of
Itäkeskus, in the area around one of the largest shopping centers in the
Nordic countries
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.
Public transport in the area relies heavily on the
Helsinki Metro
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. The stations of
Itäkeskus,
Myllypuro and
Puotila service the neighbourhood. Several bus lines serve the areas not within walking distance of the stations. Two major highways,
Itäväylä
Itäväylä (the Eastern Highway, Swedish: Österleden) is a motorway-like road in the Greater Helsinki area of Finland, mainly in the Helsinki conurbation. It is part of the Finnish regional road 170 (, ). The road begins in Kalasatama, Sörn ...
and
Kehä I, intersect in Vartiokylä.
Image:Puotinharju2.jpg, Residential buildings of Puotinharju, and a branch of Prisma hypermarket
Image:Winter stream marjaniemi.jpg, Winter time in Marjaniemi
Image:Puotilankappeli.jpg, Puotilankappeli in Puotila
Image:Syksyinen Vartiokylänlahti.jpg, Autumnal view on Vartiokylänlahti bay
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