Helsinki overview
Helsinki a modern European cultural city with a urban cosmopolitan lifestyle exists in perfect harmony with nature. Surrounded by sea and its own exotic archipelago offering visitors an endless number of possibilities. Helsinki has something for everyone.
With its colourful market squares and halls, seaside parks, excellent cafes and restaurants for every taste and budget, excellent standard of hotels and cutting-edge art in fine museums. Its also a compact city, with many of the attractions in the central districts within easy reach of one another.
Attractions range from the fabulous island fortress of Suomenlinna in the entrance to the South Harbour, the Open Air Museum of traditional buildings on the island of Seurasaari, Museum of Contemporary Art and the unique ‘Church in the Rock’. History abounds in the magnificent Senate Square, with its neo-Classical Lutheran Cathedral, in the nearby Uspensky Orthodox Cathedral, and in the art nouveau details of the Railway Museum and National Museum.