Walking With Dinosaurs – The Arena Spectacular Based on the six-part BBC miniseries that first aired in 1999, this show is one of the most successful stadium shows ever. Since its first inception as Walking with Dinosaurs – The Live Experience which first appeared in Australia at the beginning of 2007, there have been close [...]
The Finnish National Gallery The largest art museum institution in Finland, the Finnish National Gallery is comprised of three museums and the Central Art Archives. The three museums are the Ateneum Art Museum, the Sinebrychoff Art Museum and Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art. The stated aims of the FNG is to further the cultural heritage [...]
// Of all the many available choices of accommodation in Finland, perhaps the most exotic are the many places where visitors can spend a night in a room fashioned from snow and ice. Indeed, this option has proven to be one of the winter’s most popular as can be seen by the increase in the [...]
There are many things that we associate with Amusement Parks – thrills, excitement, fun, laughter – but great food isn’t usually one of them. That’s set to change in Linnanmäki, Helsinki’s hugely popular Amusement Park, now that Kattila has opened. Kattila provides six different dining opportunities, with six new kitchens with top chefs (with no [...]
For the 8th year Korkeasaari Zoo in Helsinki will host Art Meets Ice, an international ice sculpture competition. Held over the first two weekends in February, Art Meets Ice takes the form of two separate competitions; on the weekend of February 4th and 5th, individuals will be challenged to create pieces based on the theme [...]
Located in the municipality of Lappi on a remote hill off the road between Tampere and Rauma, Sammallahdenmäki is a Bronze Age burial site designated by UNESCO in 1999 as a World Heritage Site. Sammallahdenmäki includes 33 granite burial cairns dating from the period 1,500 to 500 BCE, and was originally located near the coast [...]
Photo archive of the Governing Body of Suomenlinna / Suomen Ilmakuva Oy. The island Fortress of Suomenlinna was recognised by UNESCO as an outstanding example of military architecture of its time, representing both the general fortification principles of the 18th century, and the specific characteristics unique to military buildings. It was added to the list [...]
Rovaniemi was listed as one of the top christmas destinations in not but three separate tourism articles published recently: in Forbes, Readers Digest and in the Asia Tatler. It’s not hard to see why, Rovaniemi is branded as “The Official Hometown of Santa Claus”, and with both Santa Claus Village and the underground fantasy land [...]
Located in the Töölö district of Helsinki, Temppeliaukio, or the Church in the Rock, is one of the city’s most popular and distinctive tourist attractions, with over half a million visitors annually. It was designed by the architects Timo and Tuomo Suomalainen, and consecrated in 1969, since which time it has attracted architectural aficionados from [...]
The first Air Guitar World Championships were held in 1996 as part of the larger Oulu Music Video Festival, and has been held there every summer since then. That first year was dominated by Finns, who took gold, silver and bronze, but since then the sheer number of representatives from around the world has brought [...]
