Nobody knows exactly how old the oldest city in Finland is. Thus, the elevation to bishop in 1229 as the birth of Turku. With 175 000 inhabitants. Hanse is the only city in Finland's fifth largest cit...
Human and nature in tune - A special people in a unique European landscape. Home of the Saami, or Lapp people, one of the last peoples to follow an ancestral way of life. Someone who travels to Lapland,...
Blue and green - like on the map. Thousands of summer huts around the Saimaa and other lakes are available to tourists looking to relax. . Many guests spend at least a part of their holidays in the lake...
Finnish sedulity and a relaxing holiday. Busy towns with export industry as well as the solitude of fishing villages or bathing resorts – the coast has both. . The Finns are not content with living on t...
Tampere is located at the interface of two lakes (Näsijärvi and Pyhäjärvi), where the other one in "overflow" and earlier times a feared rapids was. This chute has an early development of industry fav...
At the narrowest point of the Gulf of Bothnia 1606 was the city of Vaasa. After a major fire in 1852 was directly Vaasa Coastal rebuilt and is today a bustling port and industrial town (57 000 Ew.) Wi...
For Lapland ratios is in Rovaniemi (35 000 Ew.) Lively. Economy, trade, tourism and management are concentrated here. At the retreat of the German army in 1944 totally destroyed, Rovaniemi in 1946 was...
