Activities

Love & Anarchy – Helsinki International Film Festival 2019

Helsinki International Film Festival – Love & Anarchy 19.- 29.9.2019 Finland’s leading film festival, the…

Island Hopping

Helsinki is surrounded by over 300 islands, several of which are easily accessible by waterbus…

Shopping Centres in Helsinki

There are around 30 major shopping centres in Helsinki and environs. To start with, in…

Midsummer in Helsinki

Happy Midsummer or Hyvää Juhannusta, as the Finns would say! Apart from Christmas, Midsummer is…

Helsinki Day 2019

Happy birthday Helsinki! June 12th is Helsinki Day, when the City celebrates its founding in…

Helsinki Samba Carnaval

Every June, the streets of Helsinki come alive with the sounds of samba.  The Helsinki…

A Souvenir with an Edge – the ‘Puukko’

While souvenir shopping is a universal standard for tourists, a knife as a souvenir may…

Visit St. Petersburg Visa-Free via Helsinki

Helsinki’s location makes it a great starting point for anyone who wants to explore the…

Ateneum Art Museum

The Ateneum Art museum appears on nearly every list of must-sees in Helsinki for good…

Oodi Library

Helsinki’s new central library Oodi opened on December 5, the eve of Finland’s 101st Independence Day, a fitting…