Helsinki

we spent the one day in Helsinki, the capital of Finland. One day, just enough time to walk and eat and see everything.

The architecture is what this city was about. Not much else here really. A nice harbor, but other than that. Buildings. Different colors and textures, still buildings.

 The main attraction. The huge white lutheran church sitting atop a billion steps! The dome was being reconstructed, but you can still tell it's magnitude. We walked all around it, each side offering a different view of the city.

 The contemporary art museum. we got in for free! Not because we are thieves, but thanks to the poor outline of the building, we managed to sneak into coat check and away from the registers. We really tried to find the desk to pay! honestly! we never found it! Only later when we were walking out, did we notice the info desk...doubling as a pay center. who knew??

 The Old Market Hall. Two aisles of delis, bakeries, and other little goods shops all built inside and around this old train station. You can tell by the high middled roof that at one time, a train passed through here. just one train...now an inside market square.

  The Sibelius Monument. I don't know who Sibelius is, but apparently he deserved this monument. Hundreds of hollowed out steel tubes, all placed at different levels to create this silver glacialesque structure.

Taken from underneath the monument. It also had this wind chime effect to it. Each tube offered a different sound.




Helsinki, not a whole to see, but, if you look hard enough, you can see the details that make this city beautiful. you'll notice the fine points that make this city the most visited in all of Finland ( and not just because its the capital either) :)