Finland’s capital is a great choice for a holiday! Here you’ll experience how calm and orderliness are seamlessly linked with a desire for innovation. Stroll through the streets of this marvellous city and feel the history of Northern Europe and escape from your problems as time slows down.
This article will show you the best, basic places to visit for tourists who have decided to come to Helsinki. But before we start the review, a little advice: a holiday is the absence of worries and complete psycho-emotional harmony, so you need to protect yourself as much as possible even from such organisational problems as, for example, transport. On arrival at the airport we advise you to order you Helsinki airport transfer and basically forget about problems.
Let’s get to the best places.
Senate Square
Your classical journey in the city of Helsinki should start from this place. Stroll around this place and enjoy the late classicism, take photos with various culturally important historical monuments and be sure to visit St Nicholas Church. This is a basic place to get acquainted with the city, and it may be worth taking a short tour of this place to keep you up to date with information about it.
Temppeliaukio Church
If you are interested in religion, in particular Protestantism or even if you are an atheist, we recommend you to visit Temppeliaukio Church, its unusual design deserves special attention. The church is built in the rock and it is quite extravagant. Imagine the atmosphere, the rough stone, the modern technology and the natural landscape – it is definitely worth your attention!
Ateneum Museum
It’s a bit like the local Hermitage, if you’re visiting Helsinki for the first time and you like art, you should definitely go there. With around 20,000 exhibits, there’s definitely a lot to enjoy and see. The museum also contains graphics, paintings and canvases that were made in the 18th century. Wrap yourself in history in the most literal sense!
Korkeasaari Zoo
After museums and other historical sites, it makes sense to break up your holiday and go to the zoo. You can come here at any time, because the zoo is open all year round, its speciality is that it contains endangered species of animals and the cherry on the cake of this place is the ice sculpture competition, which attracts people from all over the world! Explore!
Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma
Have you been to the zoo yet? Great, it’s time to go to the museum! This time it will be modern, because this is the Museum of Contemporary Art. Here you will find about 4,000 works of art, and there are also non-permanent exhibitions (so you will always be interested in coming here).
Aleksanterinkatu Street
Be sure to take a stroll down this street! Firstly, the smell of the sea, secondly, the unusual architectural creations, and thirdly, the abundance of markets. Markets are a separate universe with its own atmosphere, allowing you to reveal the real mood of the city you came to. Global advice: in any city of any country visit markets. But here we will be walking along one of the central streets of the city, so this is the best place for shopping in Helsinki.
Among other things, we advise you to visit this place before a holiday, for example, New Year’s Eve. Usually on such important days for the world, there are different movements, carnivals and concerts in the main street.
In this article, the most basic and at the same time some of the most interesting places for a novice tourist have been presented.