Rapids shows will be back in Imatra this summer! The renovation work of the dam is completed and now we have the change to enjoy the magnificent rapids show again!
Rapid Shows during summer 2020
- Fri 1.5. at 6 pm
- Sat 23.5. at 6 pm
- Sat 6.6. at 6 pm
- Sat 13.6. at 6 pm
- Sat 20.6. at 6 pm
- 24.6. – 23.8. Wed-Sun at 6 pm
- Sat 29.8. at 6 pm
- Sat 5.9. at 6 pm
- Sat 12.9. at 6 pm
- Sat 19.9. at 6 pm
- Sat 26.9. at 6 pm
- Sun 6.12. at 5 pm
Rapid Shows during winter 2019-2020
A winter rapid show will be organised on 6.12.2019 (Independence day of Finland) at 5 pm. And the first show of 2020 is held on Wed 1.1.2020 at 2 pm!
Imatrankoski rapids were formed 5000 year ago, when land rose after the
Ice Age and Lake Saimaa waters tore the Salpauselkä ridge apart.
Imatrankoski was a famous tourist attraction already 300 hundred years
ago, and in the end of 1800 century it was considered as a one of the
Europe’s most know attractions. Many famous people visited Imatrankoski
that time and the tourism in Imatra is considered to have begun in 1772,
when Empress Catherine II of Russia and her retinue came to admire this
magnificent play of the water in the narrow waterway.
Kruununpuisto Park, the oldest nature park in Finland, occupying the area around the Imatrankoski Rapids, was founded in 1842 by order of Tsar Nicholas I. The Kruununpuisto Park features four different sections, the Koskipuisto Park, the Patopuisto Park, the Muinaisuoma Park and the Valtionhotelli Park, and numerous sights, ranging from monuments to the largest hydroelectric power plant in Finland and a summer theatre.
Rapids are nowadays blocked by a dam, but during the summer there are shows, when dam is opened. Show is very popular and free happening gathering always hundreds of people to see magnificent nature show.
Please contact imatra@gosaimaa.com for further details.
Watch a video of undescribable experience of Imatrankoski rapids show >>