Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #5 in Helsinki, Finland

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Number of sights 20 sights
Distance 8.1 km
Ascend 0 m
Descend 0 m

Explore Helsinki in Finland with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Activities in HelsinkiIndividual Sights in Helsinki

Sight 1: Kaisaniemi Botanical Garden

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Kaisaniemi Botanical Garden is located in the Kluuvi district of Helsinki, in an area called Kaisaniemi. Along with the Kumpula Botanical Garden, it is one of the two botanical gardens of the University of Helsinki. In addition to the Botanical Museum, both gardens belong to the Botany Unit of the Finnish Museum of Natural History, headed by Docent Marko-Tapio Hyvärinen. Botanical gardens maintain a scientific collection of living plants for research and educational purposes.

Wikipedia: Kaisaniemen kasvitieteellinen puutarha (FI), Website

458 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 2: Museum of Civil Defence

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Museum of Civil Defence Sakari Kiuru / CC BY 3.0

The Helsinki Civil Defence Museum is a museum of the Helsinki City Rescue Department along Siltavuorenranta in Kruununhaka. The museum presents the history and present of civil defence and was built in a civil defence shelter during World War II. The exhibition spaces include a home from the Continuation War and objects from the civil defence industry. The Helsinki Civil Defence Association is responsible for the maintenance of the museum and organises safety training for associations, groups and school classes visiting the museum on request.

Wikipedia: Helsingin Väestönsuojelumuseo (FI), Website

742 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 3: Johan Vilhelm Snellman

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The statue of J. V. Snellman is located in front of the Bank of Finland in Kruununhaka, Helsinki. The memorial, funded by fundraising, was unveiled on Snellman's Day, 12 May 1923. The memorial competition was held in 1913 and the statue was completed already in 1916, but the First World War and the Finnish Civil War delayed its unveiling. The statue was cast in Copenhagen, Denmark, and sculpted by Emil Wikström. The pedestal of the statue and the surroundings of the monument were designed by architect Eliel Saarinen. The statue was damaged during the Continuation War during the bombing of Helsinki in February 1944. The damage left by the shrapnel on the pedestal has been left as a reminder of the bombing.

Wikipedia: J. V. Snellmanin patsas (FI)

315 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 4: Helsinki City Museum

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Helsinki City Museum is a museum in Helsinki that documents and displays the history of Helsinki, the capital of Finland. Its mission is to record and uphold Helsinki's spiritual, material and architectural heritage. The museum features personal memories and everyday life of the city's residents. It also acts as the regional museum for central Uusimaa with a mission to promote and steer museum activities in the region.

Wikipedia: Helsinki City Museum (EN), Website, Website

518 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 5: The Stone of The Empress

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Keisarinnankivi is a monument located at the Market Square in Kaartinkaupunki in central Helsinki, Finland. The monument, designed by Carl Ludvig Engel, is the oldest public monument in Helsinki. It was revealed with celebrations on the name day of Nikolai on 18 December 1835 to commemorate the first visit to Helsinki by Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, wife of Emperor of Russia Nicholas I. The monument was erected at the spot where the imperial couple stepped ashore from the steamship Ischora on arrival in Helsinki on 10 June 1833. The monument was funded by a national collection of funds and by a grant given by the Imperial Senate of Finland.

Wikipedia: Keisarinnankivi (EN)

397 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 6: Esplanadi Park

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Esplanadi, colloquially known as Espa, is an esplanade and urban park in downtown Helsinki, Finland, situated between the Erottaja square and the Market Square. It is bordered on its northern and southern sides by the Pohjoisesplanadi and Eteläesplanadi streets, respectively. Aleksanterinkatu runs parallel to Esplanadi. Esplanadi is well known as a popular walking area, and street performances are also often held in the park.

Wikipedia: Esplanadi (EN)

138 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 7: The Fazer Rooster

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Fazer's Rooster is a sculpture created by Finnish artist Björn Weckström. The sculpture was commissioned by Fazer to celebrate the company's 100th anniversary in 1991. It is located in the centre of Helsinki on Kluuvikatu.

Wikipedia: Fazerin kukko (FI)

60 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 8: Kluuvinlahti Fossils

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Kluuvinlahti fossils is a work of art by Tuula Närhinen completed in 2003 on Aleksanterinkatu in Helsinki. The work features recessed 8.5-centimetre-wide copper strips running across the sidewalks. They bear the Latin names of plants and animals on the grassy seashore.

Wikipedia: Kluuvinlahden fossiilit (taideteos) (FI)

155 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 9: Helsinki University Museum

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Helsinki University Museum is the museum of the University of Helsinki.

Wikipedia: Helsinki University Museum (EN), Website

319 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 10: Helsinki Cathedral

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Helsinki Cathedral is the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran cathedral of the Diocese of Helsinki, located in the neighborhood of Kruununhaka in the centre of Helsinki, Finland, at the Senate Square. The church was originally built from 1830 to 1852 as a tribute to the Grand Duke of Finland, Tsar Nicolas I. It was also known as St Nicholas's Church until Finland declared its full independence in 1917. It is a major landmark of the city, and one of the most famous historical structures in Finland as a whole when viewed globally.

Wikipedia: Helsinki Cathedral (EN), Website

628 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 11: Ateneum

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Ateneum is an art museum in Helsinki, Finland and one of the three museums forming the Finnish National Gallery. It is located in the centre of Helsinki on the south side of Rautatientori square close to Helsinki Central railway station. It has the biggest collections of classical art in Finland. Before 1991 the Ateneum building also housed the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts and University of Art and Design Helsinki.

Wikipedia: Ateneum (EN), Website

666 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 12: Kiasma

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Kiasma Valtion taidemuseo / Kuvataiteen keskusarkisto / Petri Virtanen / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Museum of Contemporary Art building Kiasma was designed by American architect Steven Holl, who won the architectural competition for the museum's design in 1993.

Wikipedia: Kiasma (rakennus) (FI), Website

578 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 13: Helsinki Art Museum HAM

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Helsinki Art Museum, abbreviated as HAM, is an art museum in Helsinki, Finland. It is located in Tennispalatsi in Kamppi. The museum reopened after renovations and rebranding in 2015.

Wikipedia: Helsinki Art Museum (EN), Website

262 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 14: Gecko

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Gekko is a space work made by ceramic artist Pekka Paikkari, Kristiina Riska and Kati Tuominen-Niittylä at Kamppi Metro Station in Helsinki. The work is a concrete protective cover covered with ceramic plates and is shaped by the escalated escalators. The metro escalator tube goes from the Kamppi street -level central lobby through the long -distance bus terminal to the subway station. The pipe has a diameter of about four meters and has about 275 square meters of ceramics. Gekko was completed in 2005.

Wikipedia: Gekko (taideteos) (FI)

211 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 15: Kamppi Chapel

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The Kamppi Chapel is a chapel in the neighbourhood of Kamppi in Helsinki, Finland, located on the Narinkka Square. It is also known as the "Chapel of Silence" since it is intended to be a place to calm down and have a moment of silence in one of the busiest areas of the city.

Wikipedia: Kamppi Chapel (EN), Website

560 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 16: Elias Lönnrot

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Elias Lönnrot is a monument in Helsinki, the capital of Finland, by a Finnish sculptor Emil Wikström, unveiled in 1902.

Wikipedia: Elias Lönnrot (monument) (EN)

488 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 17: Fila Church Helsinki

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Fila Church Helsinki / fair use

Fila Church Helsinki, full name Helsingin Filadelfia Parish, is a Finnish and English-speaking Pentecostal church in Kamppi, Helsinki. The parish was founded as a bilingual congregation in 1920. Helsinki Philadelphia is the second oldest Pentecostal church in Finland.

Wikipedia: Fila Helsinki (FI), Website

364 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 18: Hietalahti Market Hall

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Hietalahti Market Hall --Jisis 13:13, 8 September 2008 (UTC) / CC BY-SA 4.0

The Hietalahti market hall is an old market hall located near the Hietalahdentori market square in Helsinki, Finland, hosting several restaurants and cafés. The market hall acts as concentration for restaurants and cafés, offering Japanese, Portuguese, Italian, French and Middle Eastern cuisine both at lunchtime and in the evening.

Wikipedia: Hietalahti market hall (EN), Website

212 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 19: Helsingin itsenäinen evankelisluterilainen seurakunta

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The Independent Evangelical Lutheran Parish of Helsinki is a parish of the Evangelical Lutheran Congregation of Finland in Helsinki. Parish services are held at the Koinonia Centre of the Luther Foundation of Finland.

Wikipedia: Helsingin itsenäinen evankelisluterilainen seurakunta (FI), Website

1033 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 20: J. V. Snellman

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J. V. Snellman

Johan Vilhelm Snellman was an influential Fennoman philosopher and Finnish statesman, ennobled in 1866. He was one of the most important 'awakeners' or promoters of Finnish nationalism, alongside Elias Lönnrot and J. L. Runeberg.

Wikipedia: Johan Vilhelm Snellman (EN)

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