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Kauppatori (Market Square & Market Hall)   Helsinki

Kauppatori (Market Square & Market Hall), Helsinki

 74 Reviews  Market Square just maybe a good place to begin or end your stroll on the Esplanade. Look for the brightly colored tent tops and you can't miss the market. This outdoor market just near the harbor is... 

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Pyynikki park & tower   Tampere

Pyynikki park & tower, Tampere

 19 Reviews  This is the older observation tower, definately the better one. The park around Pyynikki is a place of relaxation to all of us, you can walk and roam there around the year and there are skiing paths... 

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Tuomiokirkko (The Lutheran Cathedral)   Helsinki

Tuomiokirkko (The Lutheran Cathedral), Helsinki

 109 Reviews  With its prominent placement on Senate Square, and its colorful green domes, no one can mistake the Tuomiokirkko. The domes are considered the city's highest structures, and the church can be seen for... 

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Näsinneula (Observation Tower)   Tampere

Näsinneula (Observation Tower), Tampere

 11 Reviews  You must see the tower when in Tamprere. So, take a trip to tower and you understand where Tampere is located and why we Finns love our lakes. I love lake Näsijärvi (someone loves lake Pyhäjärvi too,... 

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Suomenlinna Island & Fortress   Helsinki

Suomenlinna Island & Fortress, Helsinki

 103 Reviews  Here, you can find some buildings of the naval academy. Though there is the one or other nice building, it is probably the less interesting part for tourists. The main building was designed by C.L.... 

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Moominvalley   Tampere

Moominvalley, Tampere

 9 Reviews  Some say that this is Tampere’s most popular attraction. Indeed, Moominvally has attracted a wide range of visitors from families with kids, to Asian girls who come because of Moomin’s cutenes and of... 

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Uspenski Orthodox Church   Helsinki

Uspenski Orthodox Church, Helsinki

 81 Reviews  The Uspenski Orthodox Cathedral is absolutely one of the most striking buildings in Helsinki. It's a church made of brick, situated on the peninsula Katajanokka (in Swedish "Skatudden") in downtown... 

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Särkänniemi Amusement Park   Tampere

Särkänniemi Amusement Park, Tampere

 13 Reviews  This place is right beside the TV Tower. The setting is cool, with an assortment of rides beside Lake Näsijärvi. You can get great views over the lake & the cityscape from the high rides, like the... 

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Temppeliaukio (Rock) Church   Helsinki

Temppeliaukio (Rock) Church, Helsinki

 59 Reviews  One of the most famous sights in Helsinki is the Temppeliaukio Kirkko or Rock Church. This very untraditional Lutheran church was constructed between 1968 & 1969 and is one circular dome design, and... 

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Tuomiokirkko   Tampere

Tuomiokirkko, Tampere

 9 Reviews  Tampere Cathedral, one of the city's best-known sites, aroused vehement debates when it was built at the beginning of the twentieth century. The daring paintings by famous Finnish artist Hugo Simberg... 

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Esplanadi Boulevard   Helsinki

Esplanadi Boulevard, Helsinki

 35 Reviews  It is said that the Esplanade, constructed in the 1800's, served as a political dividing line of sorts when certain inhabitants of the country could not decide whether the Finnish or Swedish language... 

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The Lenin Museum   Tampere

The Lenin Museum, Tampere

 10 Reviews  This museum has mixed reviews and I really can understand why. The collection of the museum mostly consists mainly of publications by Lenin made during his time in Finland. As these are in Finnish or... 

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Korkeasaari (Helsinki Zoo)   Helsinki

Korkeasaari (Helsinki Zoo), Helsinki

 20 Reviews  Korkeasaari is the Finnish name of Helsinki Zoo. It's situated on a beautiful island in Helsinki. You reach it either with walking over a bridge or by ferry from Helsinki Market Square. The Zoo is a... 

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Pispala   Tampere

Pispala, Tampere

 4 Reviews  More than 50 years this building has served arts. It's one of the oldest houses on the Pispala highway (it's only a street, but there are some streets called highways here in Tampere and this is one... 

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Olympic stadium   Helsinki

Olympic stadium, Helsinki

 24 Reviews  Visit this place for stunning view over Helsinki. The elevator takes you up to a height of 72 metres metres. Up there, space is very limited. There are two floors connected by a set of stairs with old... 

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Arboretum   Tampere

Arboretum, Tampere

 7 Reviews  If you are tired of the hussle in the city you can visit Hatanpää Arboretum (abt 2 km from teh centre). In its beautiful parks and view towards to Lake Pyhäjärvi and Pyynikki your soul definitely... 

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Linnanmaki Amusement Park   Helsinki

Linnanmaki Amusement Park, Helsinki

 17 Reviews  Linnanmäki Amusement Park: fairground amusements, the big ferris wheel, the roller coaster, lots of other rides, the toy and play museum, restaurants, Peacock Variety Theatre etc. Special: The first... 

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Vapriikki Museums   Tampere

Vapriikki Museums, Tampere

 5 Reviews  This place is probably considered as Tampere’s main museum, even if the Lenin Museum and the Moomin Valley are better known. Vapriikki is located on the former ground of the Tampella factory, once one... 

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National Museum   Helsinki

National Museum, Helsinki

 14 Reviews  The National Museum of Finland is a building with a with a tall spire which looks more like a church than a museum. It contains a permanent exhibition of Finnish life from prehistoric times to the... 

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Tampere Orthodox Church   Tampere

Tampere Orthodox Church, Tampere

 3 Reviews  I am an orthodox, so this church is close to me. My roots are from very east, so I have lived in close relationship with Cristian doctrine and orthodoxy. There is an icon in the corner of my living... 

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Ateneum Art Museum   Helsinki

Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki

 17 Reviews  Ateneum is the home of Finnish National Art Gallery housing a collection of Finnish art from the Gustavian period of the mid-18th century to the modernist movements of the 1950s. Its most notable... 

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Tampere City Library   Tampere

Tampere City Library, Tampere

 3 Reviews  This is one of the best places of Tampere. The main library is called Metso. There is a free Internet for everyone to use and Tampere has even their own Netti-Nysse which is a mobile Internet bus. It... 

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Finlandia Talo (Finlandia Hall)   Helsinki

Finlandia Talo (Finlandia Hall), Helsinki

 8 Reviews  There are many other tips concerning this hall already. But did you know this? You can blame Mr. Alvar Aalto, the architect, for the deteriorating marble wall tiles. He absolutely insisted on having... 

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Amuri museum of workers' housing   Tampere

Amuri museum of workers' housing, Tampere

 6 Reviews  Tampere was founded in 1779. Beginning in the mid 1800's heavy industrialisation brought many new inhabitants to the town. They needed somewhere to live and the burgesses had to give up their fields.... 

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Tallipiha - The Stable Yards   Tampere

Tallipiha - The Stable Yards, Tampere

 2 Reviews  A collection of stables from the 19th century was refurbished and has becaome a popular market for sweets, handicrafts and other souvenirs. The atmosphere at this places depends a lot on the season... 

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Outdoor Ice hole Fishing (Spring) - Pilkkiminen

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Finland is a very rude country, almost half of the year snow and ice cover the scenes and on those old days people had to be clever to feed themselves. This is a northern habit and it's extremely tanning :) Sunshine gets double with ice reflection.First you need the hole (photo 2) and it's done with special drill. In this place ice was 60 cm (2 feet) and with a sharp drill it takes only some 15 secs to have ready hole.Fishing is easy (photo 1) and warm, the Sun is shining from the camera's side, the temperature was about -5C, but the straight sunshine makes it feel about 15 Celsius :) You get here better tanning than in Copacabana! Note! there's a fish, follow the text and arrow!The equipment (photo 3). As you might guess there are a lot of secrets in this game, no one envies more than fishermen, here you can see the reel, rod (very short, I had a small lure) and the line. As bait I was...

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Amazing frozen art.

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If you visit Finland in the winter as I did, you may well be lucky enough to stumble upon exhibitions of snow sculpture. I was playing with a group of Irish dancers (think a mini Riverdance here) and when we had time off we would often go wandering about. In various towns and cities we would find snow sculpture exhibitions which were of an extremely high quality. After all this time I cannot remember which towns these were all in but they give you some idea of the standard you can expect. In truth, some of these images may have been taken in neighbouring Sweden where the artform is also popular.If you are lucky you may even see the artists at work using a variety of tools to achieve these stunning results.

Ice sculpture, Finland.
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Cooking - Barbecue - Chickenball/sausage skewers

by akkipaa

This is easy and fast also, you just need to have some barbecue equipment, gas or coil, I use most often gas (easier, faster, cleaner and you can fix the temperature).Use parilla, add some fat and the order is vegetables (paprika and zucchini) first and the skewers next. Season with spices suitable for you, I use salt, barbecue spice and Garam Masala to get some Indian flavour. You can mix paprika, tomato, mushrooms or what ever you like to skewers the importance is in consistency. Use two wooden sticks to get more fixing power and centle heatness.

Cooking - Barbecue - Chicken / meat skewers

by akkipaa

This is easy and fast also, you just need to have some barbecue equipment, gas or coil, I use most often gas (easier, faster, cleaner and you can fix the temperature).Use parilla, add some fat and the order is vegetables (paprika and zucchini) first and the skewers next. Season with spices suitable for you, I use salt, barbecue spice and Garam Masala to get some Indian flavour. You can mix paprika, tomato, mushrooms or what ever you like to skewers the importance is in consistency. Use two wooden (hmm... one of my friend is now whjispering: bamboo) sticks to get more fixing power and centle heatness.

Cooking - Barbecue (mostly summer) - Salmon

by akkipaa

This is easy and fast, you just need to have some barbecue equipment, gas or coil, I use most often gas (easier, faster, cleaner and you can fix the temperature).Use parilla, add some fat and the order is mushrooms first, the other vegetables (paprika and zucchini) and finally the salmon. Season with spices suitable for you, I use salt, barbecue spice and Garam Masala to get some Indian flavour.

Outdoor watergames (Spring)

by akkipaa

We get some 80-100cm snow during the winter and our area is about 338 000 square kilometeres. Think what happens when the snow is smelting: we have a lot of running water and by lot I mean LOT. In most places the water just filters through earth but we have w lot of rivers, small and big ones and the season is suitable for canoying, fishing, boating and to extremers for swimming (the temperature of the water is like 6-10 Celsius).This rabit is in Mid Finland, there's a channel and a town besides, called Konnekoski.

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Outdoor cooking (all around the year) - Glow Salmo

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This is Glow Salmon. Very special but easy to prepare. You just need some special "tools", like open fire, wooden stave with holes (easy to drill) and wooden sticks to nail the filee of Salmon to the stave. Just place the system besides fire to place were you can put your hand, the issues is not fire but radiation. Use salt before (like 1tbsb/300g) and don't use water at all the fat in Salmon is water-soluble and you rinse it away with dry results.As you can see, it was winter, it was raining snow, that's the reason to additional construction I build a plate roof the the stave. In this distance the preparation time was about three hours. (Depends mostly on the size of filee, distance to fire, other conditions only in minor role). And trust me, the braver you are, the further away you put the fish and the better is the result. In the picture the average distance of fish from fire is about...

Outdoor cooking (all around the year) - Coffee

by akkipaa

The best results of (Finnish) coffee can be reached with coking it in open fire. You need a speciel coffee pot, rough grinded coffee (search "pot grinded/pannujauhatus" term from package) and fresh water. Just boil the water (a litre), add two cups of coffee, just boil again and let calm down some minutes.We call this delicious as Smutch Pot Coffee and it is best when drinked is special wooden cups we call "Kuksa".Remember, you need owner's permission here in Finland to open fire!

Number One - Let's go to Sauna

by akkipaa

There's no Finn without sauna. No one can count how many saunas there are, my guess is about 1,5 million. I have two, both heated with tree (there are electric ones also), and I regularly visit some others. Sauna has probably been the institution we've survived here in cold circumstances on those old days. It has been source of hot water, health and sanitation. We have long distances, some 50 years ago it was quite common to be born in sauna.Nowadays is the source of relaxation, mostly, one or two times a week, but it is not a rule, you can warm it when you think you need it. Most common sauna day is Saturday. And a note, Finnish sauna has nothing to do with those in red light areas, there has to be a sauna stove and you have to be able to throw water to it (it's ridiculous to visit some hotel saunas with label: "It's forbidden to use water". Throw it onto stowe, in all places around, a...

Walk trough HelsinkiCity

by crazydingo

Walking trough the city Helsinki is a wonderfull experience. Its beautifull! Lots of big buildings, old and modern. There's a lot of art on the way. Everywhere you go, there's a special statue. From big to small. The smallest one, I couldnt find, is a little mouse. To bad I havent found it, but its something you really have to search for... Nice challenge. The park is huge and very nice to be at. During summer it's hot in Helsinki and a stay in the park is een must! Take a seat and bring a picknickbasket and look arround! In de middle of the city, there's a amusementpark aswell, Linnanmäki, with rollercoasters and stuff. Next to it, there's Seaworld. To see all of this, you'll need a few days, but its really worth it!

Helsinki Cathedral
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