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WELCOME TERVETULOA ISTEN
HOZTA VÄLKOMMEN
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TULEMAST BIENVENIDOS
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Welcome
to My Best Helsinki:
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14
pages of Helsinki photos, numerous
links to different
Helsinki sights, restaurants, hotels,
shopping, culture, transportation, etc.
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HELSINKI
SUMMER. The bustling summer market in the center of Helsinki is a true
delight.
This fountain is a popular meeting spot. |
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HELSINKI
BY
NIGHT: one of our favorite times to stroll around Helsinki center in
the summer.
It is warm
and the sun hardly sets. This particular night was cloudy and darker
than usually. |
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Helsinki's South
Harbor Market Square & Helsinki's famous Havis
Amanda
Fountain. Back in the
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The
Helsinki Cathedral ("the Dome") on Helsinki's Senate Square, as seen
from Sofia Street:
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day,
the unveiling of this now beloved statue, a.k.a. "Manta", caused quite
a scandal and a stir.
Click
on photo for a larger, a bit different view. |
Helsinki, view to Senate
Square & the Dome from restaurant Nuevo's patio on Sofia Street.
Evidently
this image is very popular, so popular that at least 7 web-sites have
stolen it from me.
If
you see it on any other web-site, it is a stolen image. I would grately
appreciate it if You let
me know if you see this photo on any other website.
Thank you. |
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Most
photos on My Best Helsinki can be viewed in a larger format by
clicking on the photos.
Please
see copyright notice on
bottom
of the page.
Helsinki
summer at its best. warm & pretty. Carnival at senate square.
helsinki cathedral a.k.a. helsinki dome, watching over the festivities. |
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Helsinki
summer magic.
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For
information about Finnish cultural
and
historical items:Virtual
Finland |
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Finnish
is a complex, beautiful language.
For over 2,000
forms of
the Finnish noun
for "shop", click Professor
Fred
Karlsson.
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IN
HELSINKI, STREET SIGNS ARE IN
FINNISH AND SWEDISH. The
Finnish
word
for "street"
is "katu". |
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Helsinki Harbor
around
midnight in June. Footbridge from Katajanokka to the
South
Harbor
Market Square. The small ship Runeberg makes day cruises
to
the old & quaint city of Porvoo.
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Helsinki's
Esplanade Park & North Esplanade. Behind the statue of
Runeberg, you
can see the corner of the Kämp Hotel.
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Different
view of Helsinki Cathedral:
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Great
Helsinki view from top of the Dome (Helsinki Cathedral) steps:
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House
of The Estates in Helsinki.
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The
largest Neo-Gothic stone church, the "Johannes Church",
in Europe in the background, behind the Senat Square buildings
and the other buildings in the center of Helsinki.. |
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The shopping
map above does not list every new shop or boutique. For
trendier shopping / brands & occasional unique finds,
we recommend
walking along Uudenmaankatu, Fredrikinkatu & Eerikinkatu. (katu = street)
Periodically, these shops have great sales. Check
out these 3 examples: |
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Also check out, in different
location: |
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ASUNA
Fredrikinkatu
24,
00120
Helsinki, Tel (09) 611 543
second link |
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GAUDETE (Fredrikinkatukatu 35,
00120
Helsinki Tel (09) 608 635 |
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MYYMÄLÄ
2 Uudenmaankatu
23,
Helsinki,
tel + 358 (0)41 7832327 |
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BEAMHILL
Yliopistonkatu
7, 00100
Helsinki, Tel +358 (0)9 622 2653 |
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Great
view from top of the Dome steps toward Aleksanterinkatu and
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Detail of
the Helsinki
Railway Station.
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Architect
Eliel Saarinen.
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toward
Helsinki's South Harbor - see the top of one of the ferries to
Sweden. |
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The
Helsinki Government Palace, peeking out
between the Helsinki Cathedral pillars.
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Helsinki
Railway Station plattform with its new
glass & metal cover structure.
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The
National Theater building, as seen from the
side entry steps to the Helsinki Railway Station.
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View
over Helsinki center toward North Harbor and
Uspenski Cathedral. Stockmann in foreground.
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Helsinki
South Harbor in the winter. View over the bay, toward Katajanokka
neigborhood. The
widely disliked white "Enso house" by Alvar Aalto partly
blocks the view of the Uspenski
Cathedral at left. |
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This
panorama of Helsinki's South Harbor is taken from Palace
Hotel, our
favorite hotel in Helsinki. You can see the Silja
Line
and
Viking
Line
overnight ferries
from Helsinki
to
Stockholm far right on both sides of the harbor.
(Not the small ship in the front, which apparently was some sort of a
small cruise ship).. |
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It
takes 2.87 years to swim from New York to Helsinki. You
endure
extreme cold, eat uncleaned raw fish and garbage from
passing ships and
drink
salt
water.
Forget about luggage. We found a better
way. FINNAIR,which
in exchange for money
(rates fluctuate seasonally), flies
you directly from JFK to
Helsinki-Vantaa
in
seven hours, give or take. They also carry
your luggage.
Their food is better than garbage.
Another choice is SAS, from
Newark
to
Helsinki
via either Stockholm or Copenhagen.
Other airlines
also offer one stop service through
various cities. The
Finnish word for "airplane" is "lentokone". |
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CLICK
ON PHOTO below FOR A HUGE, wider and larger VIEW, WITH
INFORMATION ABOUT THE AREA
& BUILDINGS |
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Helsinki rooftop view:
Helsinki South Harbor, Market Square, the Dome, Town Hall, to Finland's
Presidential Palace, Uspenski Cathedral in Katajanokka neighborhood.
This
is from the Terrace
Bar of the Palace
Hotel,
where
the staff is friendly, professional and hospitable. We think
of it as our home in
Helsinki.
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The
small photo below is of the concierge, Klaus,
assisting
a customer at the Palace reception. |
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When
you make a
reservation, tell Klaus we sent you.
We like the junior suites
with the sea view. |
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Winter
view of Helsinki's South Harbor, seen in Helsinki city panorama, above.
For more
Helsinki winter photos, see My Best Helsinki Photos 4
- winter. |
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Katarina, a
shipboard Cafe in Helsinki's South Harbour. The
Presidential
Palace can be seen behind the front & center masts of the ship.
Uspenski Cathedral sits
high above the ugly Aalto building, reminding all of us of a more
gracious era in
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Summer night in Helsinki,
around
midnight in June. The bridge to Katajanokka,
The Presidential Palace can be partly seen the to the far left of the
image.
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The Helsinki
Cathedral, night view as seen from a side street.
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Katajanokka,
facing Helsinki's North Harbor. Click for larger view.
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Helsinki
center, as seen
from Torni. We are looking over Mannerheim
Street, over
the Old Student house (green cupola), over the Railway
Station toward kaisaniemi Park, Kruununhaka, Hakaniemi and Kallio.
The Kallio church tower, can be seen in the background, at left.
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to
enlarge:
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FOR
PLACES TO EAT IN HELSINKI,
CHECK
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Helsinki Cathedral, a.k.a.
the
Dome.
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For
beautiful cityscapes,
great building & city
photos
with information,
etc., please visit:
HELSINKI ARCHITECTURE
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The
Finnish word for " food"
is " ruoka".
"restaurant"
is " ravintola".
And,
in
Finnish, "bar"
= "baari",
"music"
= "musiikki",
club"
= "klubi",
"band" = "bändi".
Easy, right?
Check out: MORE HELPFUL WORDS |
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We
are
continuously
upgrading all pages on My Best Helsinki with photos, links and text. We
strive to
keep all links in working order.
If you notice a defect, or
have suggestions or questions, we
would love
to receive your e-mail.
We
hope you enjoy My Best Helsinki. Thank you. |
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One single shot of
reflections from one wall of windows on Mannerheimintie, in the very
center of Helsinki. |
| WE APOLOGIZE FOR THE LARGE
WATERMARKS ON THE PHOTOS, BUT AS IT HAS
TURNED
OUT, OUR PHOTOS HAVE BEEN STOLEN A LOT, especially the "Helsinki Sophia
Street Dome"-photo on top of this page.. |
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All
photos
& images, including enlarged pop-up photos, images,
content & design on this page and on all My Best Helsinki
pages,
are privately
owned, copyrighted work ©
R.C.C.Gelber 1999,
2000-2008, 2009 and / or © Annu Lilja 1999,
2000-2008, 2009. Any copying, printing,
re-production, posting or displaying of ANY of the photos on ANY
of MY BEST HELSINKI pages, in any form, is strictly
forbidden.
If you
are interested in purchasing a photograph, please contact us. Thank You. |
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