Helsinki Guide to Helsinki Tourist Information
An extensive Guide to Helsinki with unbiased tourist information, travel reviews, helpful hints and tips! Here at Get-Packing.com we give a detailed summary of tourist information in Helsinki on key facts, maps, pictures, weather information, attractions, events, shopping, restaurants, travel and much more.
Partly on the mainland, and partly on an archipelago of islands in the Baltic Sea, Finland's picturesque and low rise capital Helsinki is home to just over half a million people, and is closer in nature to Sweden and Russia than the rest of the country.
The main city centre surrounds the harbour, Etelesatama and the market square, and is surrounded by a fast growing city where no building currently stands taller than 12 storeys, and over half of which is designated as parkland making the city of Helsinki feel almost provincial rather than capital.
As a city break destination, or as a place to begin a holiday touring Finland, Helsinki has a great deal to offer and to interest visitors including galleries specialising in modern art, museums and a good shopping centre.
The devastation visited on Helsinki by merciless bombing during the Second World War left few of the older buildings still standing, and the stage was set for Alvar Aalto's daring new forms of architecture - modernism and functionalism to dominate the way the new city was built, and giving Helsinki a more unified and indeed uniform feel when you explore it.
You can get cheap deals on flights and package holidays to Helsinki throughout the year, and the rich programme of cultural events in the summer together with the quality of attractions on offer makes Helsinki a unique destination that will delight travellers looking for somewhere memorable to spend a few days.
Facts for the Traveller:
Name: Republic of Finland
Capital: Helsinki
Area: 377,030 sq km
Population: 5.19 million
Language: Finnish, Swedish, English
Flight Time: 2 Hours from London
Currency: Euro
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