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Kauppatori (Market Square & Market Hall) Helsinki
82 Reviews There was a Market on, great, I couldn't wait to have a look! I liked lots here, plenty of different things for sale, so different to "home!' Lots of very warm looking Furs, beautiful Capes, lots of...
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Pyynikki park & tower Tampere
21 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
119 Reviews Whilst walking around the city we came across the imposing white neo-classical style Cathedral in Senate Square. Work began on this Cathedral in 1818, by a person named "Engel," who died 12 years...
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Näsinneula (Observation Tower) Tampere
12 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
104 Reviews Suomenlinna is quite a big area to walk around and many of the surfaces are uneven. We walked and looked at Museums, as these were included in our Helsinki card. There were quite Museum's scattered...
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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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Temppeliaukio (Rock) Church Helsinki
62 Reviews The Rock Church, is a Lutheran Church completed in 1969. It really is something different to see in Helsinki. The Finnish name is Temppeliaukio Church, named after Temppeliaukio Square, the location...
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Särkänniemi Amusement Park Tampere
15 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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Uspenski Orthodox Church Helsinki
87 Reviews The Uspenski Cathedral is the largest orthodox church in Western Europe. In Helsinki, it really stands out, especially when you are coming into Helsinki harbour by boat. The Russian Orthodox...
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Pispala Tampere
6 Reviews Pispala is a special district of Tampere. It has an undeniable charm, with its colourful wooden cottages built by late 19th-century workers and narrow lanes. The cottages, now worth a small fortune,...
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Esplanadi Boulevard Helsinki
33 Reviews Esplanade Park was a really nice park, located between two main streets and surrounded by beautiful Neo-Renaissance buildings, which replaced the old wooden houses in the latter half of the 19th...
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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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Linnanmaki Amusement Park Helsinki
21 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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Tuomiokirkko Tampere
12 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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Korkeasaari (Helsinki Zoo) Helsinki
18 Reviews Korkeasaari Zoo organizes every fall a so called "Night of the Cats" event. This year it will take place on the 2nd and 9th of September. During these nights the zoo will be open between 16:00-24:00....
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Vapriikki Museums Tampere
6 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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Olympic stadium Helsinki
26 Reviews In 1952 the Olympic Summer Games were held in Helsinki. The Stadium is still in great condition and is still used. Right next to the stadium is the Olympic Tower, from where you can see all of...
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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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National Museum Helsinki
16 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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Sauna in Tampere Tampere
3 Reviews One of most famous saunas in Finland. many celebritys have been here also, and it´s very popular for tourists. I don´t like public saunas, but I thought I MUST save this here, when no-one else has...
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Ateneum Art Museum Helsinki
16 Reviews Ateneum is Finland's National Gallery housing the oldest, most significant and extensive works of art and dates range from 1750-1960. There are approximately 17,500 works of art including some...
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Tampere Orthodox Church Tampere
4 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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Finlandia Talo (Finlandia Hall) Helsinki
10 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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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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Tallipiha - The Stable Yards Tampere
3 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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Interesting park with some nice Lapland style landscape, and a river that suddenly turns into some nice rapids. Excellent spot for some birdwatching, with some Siberian species often spotted in the area. The headquarters have a delightful cafe and souvenir shop. The staff is very helpful and wil give you leaflets with information about the fauna of the park.
Kaunissaari (literally Beautiful Island) Island is a traditional, small but still lively fisherman village near the city of Kotka in Southern Finland.Boats from Sapokka Harbour (in front of Maretarium Aquarium, Kotka) about 2-3 times a day in the summer. Tickets are sold on boats. There may be quite windy on the sea (even if a day may be warm). So take warm clothes with you.On the island you find a very small museum, a restaurant (good fish dishes) and accommodation. Remember to taste extremely delicious salmon pastries which are sold at a kiosk near the museum.Other very interesting islands near the city of Kotka are Tammio (only one permanent inhabitant!), Ulkotammio and Haapasaari (10 inhabitants, 25 kilometers from Kotka). For timetables see the link below, please.
The Seven Wonders of Finland The seven wonders of Finland were selected in 1973. Nowadays this list would be very different. Old Rauma Old Rauma was included in the World Heritage List of UNESCO on the eve of the 550th anniversary of the town. Old Rauma is the largest uniform wooden town area in the Nordic Countries. The oldest inhabited buildings date back to the 17th century. The Keimioniemi Fishermen shelters About a dozen fishermen shelters which date back to the 16th century. They are located in Keimioniemi Muonio (Lapland) near the Pallastunturi Fell by Lake Jerisjarvi. Sara Lamb Dish Sara is a delicious lamb dish which is made in a special method in the municipality of Lemi near Lappeenranta, south-eastern Finland. Stundars Stundars is a handicraft village: an open-air museum and a centre of culture and art. Lake Koitere Lake Koitere is the Pearl of Northern Carelia. There are 100...
The pulsating and multicoloured northern lights are born at a height of about 100 kilometers above ground level as electrically charged particles collide with the earth´s atmosphere near the magnetic poles. Northern lights can be seen from the beginning of September until April (but not every night). Our summertime isn´t dark enough for seeing northern lights (we have the midnight sun).
There are four different seasons and an unbelievable wonderful nature in Finland, especially in Lapland (Lappi, Lappland, Laponie, Lapponia): the midnight sun (nightless days during summer, in Nuorgam between May 15th and July 28th), the northern lights (Aurora borealis), beautiful fells (i.e. arctic treeless mountains), 200 000 reindeer etc. There are 187 888 lakes (60 000 of them are big ones), 179 584 islands and 5 100 rapids in Finland! Saimaa is the biggest lake district of Europe.
There are extremely good packaged tours in Finland (also tours from Helsinki to Lapland, for one day or for a longer time). There are also nice city tours guided in 10 languages in Helsinki. For the first time in the whole world they have daily city tours in Latin, too. Photo: Cathedral (Lutheran) by C.L. Engel (1778-1840) in Helsinki, completed in 1852. For more details about Helsinki see my VT Helsinki Page, please.
1. Linnanmäki Amusement Park (Helsinki): http://www.linnanmaki.fi 2. Suomenlinna Island Fortress, the island fortress no visitor to Helsinki should miss, the biggest sea fortress in Scandinavia, founded in 1748 on the islands of the coast of Helsinki (boats from the Market Square), included in the list of UNESCO´s World Heritage Sites, many museums, beaches for swimming, restaurants and cafes, a wonderful "Suomenlinna Experience" multi-image show, also guided tours (Helsinki): http://www.suomenlinna.fi 3. Korkeasaari Zoo, one of the most northerly zoos in the world with animals from arctic tundra to Amazonia, several rare species, established in 1889 (Helsinki): http://www.hel.fi/zoo/index_eng.html 4. Särkänniemi Amusement Park (Tampere): http://www.sarkanniemi.fi 5. Uspenski Cathedral, an Orthodox cathedral, a brick building in Byzantine-Slavonic style, built in 1868 (Helsinki) 6....
There is a long winter in Finland. A very unique experience is a cruise on the Sampo Arctic Ice Breaker and walking on the ice of Gulf of Bothnia (Pohjanlahti) - or swimming in the sea among ice. Sampo is the world´s only icebreaker for tourists. Sampo Tours have a gallery + a nice homepage in ten languages.
I have been an intern for 3 weeks, to learn about how things go in other zoo's. It was fantastic! Korkeasaari means high island. And darn it is... If you visit the zoo, put on your moutainshoes, you'll be needing them. No trail for very little children. Lots of special animals. And during summer, the boottrip from Helsinky center to the island is very nice. Loved it.
In the heart of Helsinki, the capital of Finland, the two streets constituting Esplanadi (Swedish: Esplanaden) are officially named Pohjoisesplanadi (Finnish for the North Esplanade Street, Swedish: Norra Esplanaden) and Eteläesplanadi (Finnish for the South Esplanade street, Swedish: Södra Esplanaden). They lead from Erottaja Square to the Market Square (Kauppatori), and the North Esplanade Street extends along the border of the Market Square up to the Katajanokka Channel. Parallel to Pohjoisesplanadi, a little northwards, is Aleksanterinkatu. Esplanadi is colloquially called "Espa".
Hotel Kamp Helsinki
16 Reviews and 332 Opinions Located on Pohjoisesplanadi, in the heart of Helsinki, Hotel Kämp is one of the city's most...
Sokos Hotel Ilves Tampere
5 Reviews and 59 Opinions I stayed at Sokos Hotel Ilves for one night in July 2011 and had a very pleasant stay in this 4 star...
Radisson Blu Marina Palace Hotel Turku Turku
4 Reviews and 125 Opinions We had never stayed in Radison hotels before, because they are allways more expensive than any other...
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Q: Right - here's the brief. I've got a maximum of three days, and am going to pick up a car from either Helsinki or Tampere....
A: go to the koli national park. thats not too far so you can get to see something in 3 days, and its one of the most beautiful landscapes in finland.
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