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This brilliant, white-walled, gold-crowned, neoclassic church was built in the years between 1830 and 1852. Carl Ludvig Engel designed the church and the buildings in square around it. Most of the people in Finland are Lutheran by faith, and this building is still used as a Lutheran church. I am told that it is al...
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In the mid-18th Century, on a group of seven islands in the Gulf of Finland south of Helsinki, the Swedish government built a series of forts to protect Finland, which was then under Swedish rule, from the Navy of Russia. A Swedish aristocrat and artilleryman named Augustin Ehrensvard designed the fortress on the I...
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Helsinki has a lot of open spaces and parks. It seems that a bright, sunny, summer day in Finland can bring out local folks and tourists.in impressive numbers. Here we see visitors to Sibelius Park which is on the outskirts of Helsinki. This park was a little out of the way, too far to walk with a time crunch. And s...
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When you want to get to Suomenlinna or when you wish to tour the islands south of Helsinki, you can take a ferryboat from this area of town. There is so much going on around the docks and the market that it is easy to pass half an hour waiting for the next boat to depart. The trick is to avoid the distractions that can...
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