Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #15 in Helsinki, Finland

Hesperianpuisto Park is a park located on the western shore of Töölönlahti Bay in Helsinki, belonging to the districts of Etu and Taka-Töölö. It borders Mannerheimintie in the west, Finlandia Hall in the south and the Finnish National Opera and Ballet in the north. On the beach, however, the park extends in a narrow strip all the way to Helsinginkatu, on the other side of which is the Zoo park area. South of Töölönlahti is the Töölönlahti Park, opened in 2016. The entire Töölönlahti park zone can be counted as part of Helsinki Central Park.

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The Paavo nurmi statue is a whole-body sculpture of runner Paavo Nurmi, the most successful Olympic athlete in Finland, made by sculptor Wäinö Aaltonen. The bronze sculpture was made in 1925 and there have been four additional casts of it. The statue has become a symbol for Finnish sport and the independent Finnish nation as well as an envoy of the image of Finland.

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Mäntymäki is a rocky and forested hill in Helsinki, on the southern edge of the Zoo area near Töölönlahti. Helsinginkatu runs past it to the south and east, and Mäntymäentie to the north. On the west side in front of the hill is a wide square, the Mäntymäki field.

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The Helsinki Deaconess Institute Church is a church building owned by the Helsinki Deaconess Institute (HDL) in the Deaconess Institute complex in Kallio, Helsinki. The church was consecrated in May 1898.

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Ilolanpuisto Park is located in the Kallio district of Helsinki. It is built on a slope that rises north from Eläintarhantie towards the Second Line. To the west, the park is bordered by Castréninkatu and to the east by the Kallio office building. The park was designed by Harald Carstens in 1966. It covers an area of approximately 1.9 hectares and is seamlessly intertwined with Tarja Halonen Park. Between the park areas lies the massive building complex of the Helsinki City Theatre. The name Ilolanpuisto derives from the villa plot called Ilola. The northwestern part of Ilolanpuisto Park has been built as a playground.

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Josafat Cliffs is a rocky green area in Harju, Helsinki, north of Helsinginkatu.

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The Chapel of the Sacred Heart is an Art Nouveau chapel of the Finnish Lutheran Gospel Association (SLEY) located on Kirstinkatu in Kallio, Helsinki.

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Kallio Church is a Lutheran church in the Kallio district of Helsinki, Finland. It was designed by Lars Sonck and represents National Romanticism with Art Nouveau influences. The National Romantic style appears in the use of traditional Finnish materials and in the church's massive, gray granite body, as well as in nature-inspired colours and decorative motifs.

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Mesipalm on an anthill is a sculpture made of red granite by Finnish sculptor Jussi Mäntynen (1886–1978) from 1931. It is located in Karhupuisto Park in Kallio, Helsinki. The sculpture depicts a bear rooting for an anthill.

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Karhupuisto is a triangular park in the Kallio district of Helsinki, Finland. It is located next to Kallio Library and Kallio Church.

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Matti Helenius Park is located in the Kallio district of Helsinki. It is built on a slope rising to the northeast behind the Kallio Library. The park borders Fleminginkatu in the west, Agricolankatu in the north, Porthaninkatu in the east and the library in the south. The park received its current name in 1963 and covers an area of 0.4 hectares. Karhupuisto is located on the west side of Matti Helenius Park, while Alli Trygg Park is located on the east side. Together, the parks form a green area of approximately 1.3 hectares.¹ Matti Helenius-Seppälä (1870–1920) was a Finnish temperance activist. Alli Trygg-Helenius was his spouse.

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The Arvo Turtiainen Memorial is a monument to the working-class poet Arvo Turtiainen, created by sculptor Raimo Utriainen in Kallio, Helsinki. It was erected in 1990. The work is located in Matti Helenius Park behind the Kallio Library.

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The Ace Regiment Memorial is a memorial dedicated to the soldiers of Infantry Regiment 11 who fell in the Winter War of 1939–1940 in Torkkelinmäki, Helsinki. The memorial is located in Alli Trygg Park, at Kaikukuja 7. The monument was designed by sculptor Aarre Aaltonen. The obelisk-like sculpture is made of granite. The sculpture was erected in 1940.

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Suhe Parish or Greater Helsinki Parish (Suhe)) is a neo-charismatic Christian congregation in Kallio, Helsinki. Suhe was founded in 1990 by pastor Rauno Kokkola. Today, the church's lead pastor is Juan David Gómez. Suhe operates as a denominationally independent community.

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Pengerpuisto is located in the Kallio district of Helsinki. It is built on top of a cliff in the middle of the Torkkelinmäki sub-area. The park is bordered on the west by the low 1920s apartment buildings on Torkkelinkatu and on the east by the row of high-rise blocks of flats on Pengerkatu. The differences in altitude in the easterly direction, on the slope leading to the seashore, are great. To the northeast and southwest, the park borders the school buildings. The area of the terraced park is approximately 1.3 hectares.

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Torkkelinpuistikko is a small and peaceful park located on Torkkelinmäki in Kallio, Helsinki, which also has a children's playground. The park was designed by Elisabeth Koch. The park is a good example of the regular and symmetrical park ideal of the 1920s.

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Kotiharju sauna or Harjutori sauna is a public sauna founded in 1928 at Torkkelinmäki, Harjutorinkatu 1 in Kallio, Helsinki.

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Siiloan Church is a Pentecostal church founded in 1969 in Helsinki. Doctrinally, the background church belonged to the Pentecostal movement, and Shiloh Church is also doctrinally close to the Pentecostal movement. The teaching of the congregation includes, among other things, considering adult baptism as the only correct form of baptism and speaking in tongues as a sign of the baptism of the Holy Ghost.

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The Kindergarten Museum, maintained by the Ebeneser Foundation, is the only professional museum in Finland specialising in the history of kindergarten work. The Kindergarten Museum was opened in the Ebeneser House designed by Wivi Lönn in Sörnäinen, Helsinki, in 1998. In 2009, a completely renewed permanent exhibition was opened. The exhibition begins on the first floor of the Ebeneser House, where, in addition to yard games at different times of the year, the history of the Sörnäinen area is explored more generally. The exhibition continues on the third floor of the building, where the history of kindergarten work and the cultural heritage of kindergartens are approached through architecture, play, work education, handicrafts and Friedrich Fröbel's pedagogy. The exhibition is functional, and special attention has been paid to children under school age.

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Katri Vala Park is located in Sörnäinen, Helsinki, on Vilhonvuori. Marjatanmäki Park was named after poet Katri Vala in 1953. From 1931 to 1933, Vala lived with her husband Armas Heikel near the park in Vilhovuorenkuja in the so-called Marjatta House.

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