Katariina Pirttimaa

Tornio is an attractive border city of happy residents, renewable services and successful businesses. We are part of Lapland and the Torne River Valley, the Bothnian Bay and the North Calotte, Barents and Europe. Together with the Swedish city of Haparanda, we form an international twin city with 32 000 inhabitants at the border of two countries. Here the Finnish and Swedish languages and cultures meet, as well as border trade, the river, the sea and a lively stream of traffic and tourists.