Kuopio is perhaps best known to visitors for its breathtakingly beautiful lakeland setting as well as for its Puijo Tower and lively Marketplace. Today Kuopio is increasingly renowed as a centre for high-class education and research and as a city that promotes a diversified economy, internationalism and high technology while preserving its unspoilt environment. Kuopio is also a cultural city offering its residents a good quality of life and high-standard services.