Interesting places in Helsinki, namely: the Sveaborg fortress, the Kiselev house, the Havis Amanda fountain and other objects, are more convenient to look for while walking around the capital of Finland with a tourist map.
Unusual sights of Helsinki
- Temppeliaukio Church: Built in the rock, this church has excellent acoustics, so it is not surprising that organ and classical concerts and sometimes metal concerts are often held here. A famous landmark in Temppeliaukio is the 3001 pipe organ.
- Monument to Sibelius: It is an ensemble of many steel pipes that resemble organ pipes. As for the sculptural portrait of Sibelius, it can be found nearby.
- Vesikko submarine: it used to be part of the Finnish Navy, but today it is a museum where everyone can come to walk around the cabins, look into the captain's cabin, look at navigation instruments and other exhibits.
What interesting places to visit in Helsinki?
After reading the positive reviews, tourists can conclude: it will be interesting for them to visit the Design Museum (the lower floor is given over to the permanent exhibition "Finnish Form", and the upper 2 - to temporary ones, dedicated, for example, to contemporary design or the history of design in other countries; museum archives store drawings, diagrams, photographs and other “artifacts”) and the popular science center “Eureka” (the attention of visitors deserves the expositions “Protect Yourself”, “Classics of Eureka”, “Smart City”, “The Way of a Coin”, as well as a garden of stones; everyone will be able to get acquainted with winter sports and natural phenomena, show their skills in figure skating or ski jumping).
Climbing the 72-meter observation tower of the Olympic Stadium (in one of the premises it will be possible to find the Museum of Sports), will be able to admire the beautiful views of the city, the Gulf of Finland and the environs of Helsinki.
Guests of the Finnish capital should not miss the Gardenia tropical garden, which consists of three parts - an outdoor garden (about 35 varieties of roses bloom here in warm weather, as well as fruit trees, various annuals and perennials), a tropical winter garden (orchids are planted here, palms, ferns, vanilla, coffee tree and other plants with wooden paths between the plantings) and the Japanese rock garden (designed by a landscape designer from Japan). In addition, the tropical garden has a swimming pool where carp swim and aquatic plants “live”.
And Linnanmaki Park (its map is shown on the website www.linnanmaki.fi) is worth visiting for the Sea Life aquarium (its inhabitants are marine flora and fauna from different parts of the world), a 4D cinema, attractions “Hurjakuru”, “Hypytin”, “Kahvikuppikaruselli”,“Ketjukaruselli”,“Kehra”,“Kieputin”,“Maisemajuna”,“Panoraama”(from the observation tower, 53 m high, you can view the entire park) and others.
