Narinkka

[2] The 2006 sculpture Yrittäjäveistos (Leverty) by Eva Löfdahl, which was raised to honour the Finnish entrepreneurs, is located at the square.

The Turku barracks was destroyed in the Finnish Civil War in 1918, and the Lasipalatsi building was built in its place.

The former bus station building currently hosts restaurants and the urban planning exhibition Laituri.

[1] A marketplace for used clothes of this kind had already been present in Helsinki since the 18th century, originally at the site of the current main military outpost in Helsinki, later at the lot of the Bank of Finland, where it was moved to Kamppi, when the main building of the Bank of Finland was built.

Because of steep height differences in the terrain, a cliff face separated it from the long-distance bus terminal at the site of the current Narinkka square.

The Narinkka square. In the background are the Kamppi Center and the Sokos Hotel Presidentti.
The financial building of the former Turku barracks , later a bus station, at the eastern edge of the Narinkka square.
Side buildings and exercise field of the Turku barracks, at the site of the current Narinkka square, photographed in 1909 by Signe Brander .
The former Narinkka along Simonkatu photographed in 1909 by Signe Brander.