This weekend sees the first big metal festival of the summer taking place: Steelfest Open Air 2012, in Hyvinkää, a small town north of Helsinki on the road to Hämeenlinna. In total there will be 22 bands performing between 4pm on Friday and the small hours of Saturday night / Sunday morning, mostly from Finland. [...]
Summer is coming to Turku, and with it comes a new exhibition in the Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art. On the 11th of May WAM opens its doors to the public again, having been closed between exhibitions. This summer’s exhibition has the jubilant title of “What a Party! Festivities and the Culture of Celebrations”, and [...]
Järvenpää: Located just 38km and 30 minutes north of Helsinki, this small garden city of less than 40,000 inhabitants is famous for being home to the great Finnish composer, Jean Sibelius, from 1904 until his death in 1957. His log cabin, Ainola, was built on the shores of Lake Tuusulanjärvi, and today functions as a [...]
The most densely populated region of the country, Southern Finland is also where the greatest concentration of cultural riches can be found. It was in the south that the first Finns settled, where the first towns sprang up, and the first trading routes established. The region extends from close to the eastern border with Russia [...]
