Six storey brick and plaster blocks climb a sloping grid of numbered streets, with a granite church tower on the high ground.
What Kallio looks like
The grid of numbered streets climbs the rock ridge, Ensi linja through Viides linja, laid out to follow the slope. Each block holds an unbroken run of five and six storey apartment buildings. Facades are painted brick and plaster in ochre, salmon pink and pale yellow, with wrought iron balconies and small shops set into almost every ground floor.
Grey granite covers on the high ground, its tower rising sixty five metres to a green copper dome and a cross above the rooftops. Streets drop away from it in every direction, lined with the same repeating apartment blocks and corner storefronts.
The market hall at Hakaniemi square marks the southern edge of the district, a long two storey building with grocery stalls on its ground floor. park breaks the grid with a strip of lawn and trees along Fifth Line, and still runs on cobblestones past the church and the old elementary school building.
Yle TV2's Aikuiset runs its own small cafe on the numbered streets of Linjat, moving it from to Neljäs linja between its first two seasons. Several scenes run around , the cinema at the corner of Helsinginkatu and Harjukatu.
Shot in Kallio
Yle TV2's Aikuiset runs its own small cafe on the numbered streets of Linjat. Several scenes run around Elokuvateatteri Riviera, the cinema at the corner of Helsinginkatu and Harjukatu.
Aikuiset, 2019 to 2022
Played present day
The cafe run by the show's lead opens on Kolmas linja for the first season. It moves a block over to Neljäs linja for the second, past Kallio Church and the old elementary school building.
What Kallio can double for
Grünerløkka in Oslo, Norway
Brick tenement blocks built for factory workers along the Akerselva river give Grünerløkka a similar grid of five storey worker housing. Thorvald Meyer street and the blocks around it keep the same unbroken roofline Kallio has. Grünerløkka's courtyards open onto the street more than Kallio's closed blocks, so interior courtyard shots would need matching. Try searching brick tenement courtyard block now.
Kreuzberg's Mietskasernen are five storey brick tenements built for the same industrial workforce, with the same unbroken street facade Kallio keeps. Berlin's blocks run flat and go several courtyards deep, so a wide shot would need to avoid giving away the level ground. Try searching five storey brick tenement block now.
Mariaberget in Stockholm, Sweden
Mariaberget's steep streets climb a granite outcrop above the water, much the way Kallio's own streets climb its rock ridge. The houses on Mariaberget are lower and older than Kallio's six storey blocks, so wider shots would show the mismatch. Try searching steep street granite outcrop now.
