Helsinki Tour Guide Tanja

25/06/2024

To a year filled with new discoveries and joy.
25 June

12/05/2024

Happy Mother’s Day.

23/03/2024

Did you know that the co-operation between the countries is the world’s oldest regional partnership? 🤝 On Nordic Day, celebrated March 23, we’d like to pay tribute to our dear neighbours: the happiest region in the world!

13/03/2024

Coelogyne cristata
This beautiful old greenhouse from 1893 has a large variety of cacti and other succulents for anyone craving a bit of southern flora.

Definitely a safe place to take your granny if she’s visiting, and you can even take her for a cuppa at the little cafe. The winter garden houses over 200 species of plants in three separate rooms.

01/03/2024

Freedom House rates people’s access to political rights and civil liberties in 210 countries and territories through its annual Freedom in the World report.

Individual freedoms—ranging from the right to vote to freedom of expression and equality before the law—can be affected by state or nonstate actors.

18/02/2024

South Harbor. Helsinki Blue hour.
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03/02/2024

ON 3 FEBRUARY, ALVAR AALTO’S BIRTHDAY, THE FINNISH FLAG WILL FLY FOR ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN

15/01/2024

29/12/2023

06/12/2023

Happy Independence Day Finland!
Hyvää Itsenäisyyspäivä Suomi! 🇫🇮

08/11/2023

Looking to start afresh and enjoy a better quality of life? 🌍❤️🇫🇮

According to a recent Travel Far and Wide study, Helsinki is officially Europe’s best city for expats, scoring a high 75.21 out of 100 for safety and perfect ratings for happiness, walkability and nightlife.

20/10/2023

Oodi Library

06/08/2023

Mont Blanc. Flying with

14/07/2023

La fête nationale française, 14 Juillet

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02/06/2023

The USCG Cutter Eagle is a three-masted sailing vessel, at 90 meters (295 feet) in length. The ship services as a training vessel for the USCG Academy cadets and officer candidates.

United States Coast Guard’s (USCG) sailing vessel Eagle is visiting Helsinki, Finland on June 1-4, 2023. The visit is hosted by the Finnish Border Guard. Practical arrangements of the visit are organized by the Gulf of Finland Coast Guard District (FCG).

The public has a chance to take free tours on United States Coast Guard Barque Eagle and the Gulf of Finland Coast Guard Dsitrict's guard vessel Turva.
Photo: Raja. Finnish Border Guard

08/05/2023

Victory in Europe Day.

01/05/2023

The Finnish name for May Day, “Vappu”, originates from Catholic St. Walpurgis, whose commemoration day was celebrated on the 1st of May. The first May Day festivities in Finland started in upper-class families in the 1700’s. At that time people celebrated the day by going horse riding enjoying the greenery of spring, and held parties drinking mead, sima in Finnish, at home together with friends and family.

Later Vappu became the celebration of the workers – Labour day. In 1970s, when the left wing political parties was very popular in Finland, there were thousands of people attending red flag waving parades organized in major Cities of Finland.

Nowadays the political climate is very different and the most visible group of celebrants are the students. Vappu symbols the end of the school year and graduation but most importantly it’s a massive party. When you hit the streets during Vappu, it will be impossible to miss the groups of loud and happy students wearing colorful overalls full of different patches, drink in their hand and a white student cap on their heads.
Photo Pro Helsinki

23/04/2023

Spring

30/03/2023

Northern lights

Admirers of the northern lights are in for more treats as the sun approaches its peak of activity.
we are approaching the peak of solar activity, the so-called sunspot maxima.

The maximum repeats approximately every eleven years. It is estimated that the new peak will be at hand in just over a year, in the winter of 2024–2025.

23/03/2023

The Nordic “constitution”, also known as the Helsinki Treaty – a document regulating the official cooperation among the Nordic countries – was signed on 23 March 1962 in Helsinki, Finland. The date has therefore been called the “Nordic Day”.

20/03/2023

The world’s happiest countries for 2023

Finland, where Senate Square in Helsinki is pictured, is No. 1 for happiness for the sixth year in a row.

Finland

2. Denmark

3. Iceland

4. Israel

5. Netherlands

6. Sweden

7. Norway

8. Switzerland

07/03/2023

Congratulations ✈️ and Helsinki Airport

Helsinki Airport awarded as Europe's best airport in its size category.

The ASQ (Airport Service Quality) award was granted by Airports Council International (ACI), the international umbrella organisation for airports.

The award is based on a continuous measurement of customer satisfaction and service quality.

The ASQ survey involves almost 400 airports from 95 countries each year.

Approximately 4,000 air passengers are interviewed at Helsinki Airport every year for the survey.



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18/02/2023

Time to get up.
❄️ After sweet dreams, the bears woke up active and went to their snow-covered outdoor enclosure this morning, according to a press release of the Kokeasaari Zoo.

❄️ The snow that fell during the night delighted the bears, who began to tumble in the snowdrifts.

10/02/2023

FINLANDIA HALL. Masterpiece of Alvar Aalto. Designed in n 1962/ 1967-1975

In 1962 the Helsinki city authorities commissioned Aalto to design a concert and congress building as the first part of his great centre plan. The Finlandia Hall was completed nine years later.
Photo: Martti Kapanen, Alvar Aalto Museum and Kauko Niemi

03/02/2023

THE QUALITY of LIVING

On the 3rd of February, Finnish flags are hoisted in celebration of Alvar and Aino Aalto and Finnish architecture and design. The national flag-flying day celebrates the essential role architecture and design have played in developing the Finnish welfare state and its identity.

Architecture and Design Days 2023 will take place from 1st to 5th February. This year's theme, Quality of Living, has inspired a wide range of organisations to sign up to the programme with dozens of events and exhibitions across Finland.

17/01/2023

Welcome to Finland

10 Beautiful Places to visit in Finland. Some of the best places to visit in finland are natural wonders such as Lapland and aland islands. Finland which is ...

05/01/2023

Jugend style. Katajanokka. Helsinki.