Every photograph below was taken by us, on a trip we took ourselves. Nothing here is stock, and nothing shows a place we have not stood in.
A bar of salmiakki, the salty licorice
The Finnish National Theater across Railway Square
Helsinki Cathedral above its flight of steps
The pastry counter in a bakery
The Havis Amanda fountain on Market Square
The iconostasis inside Uspenski Cathedral
The red brick front of Uspenski Cathedral
Bunting over the street, the dome of Helsinki Cathedral beyond
An ocher neoclassical front in the center
Senate Square, the Alexander II statue and the cathedral
An organ above the gallery of a round, domed interior
The harbor, a ship and the Ferris wheel
Inside Temppeliaukio, rock walls and copper dome
The Sibelius Monument, steel pipes welded into a wave
The Kamppi Chapel of Silence, curved in wood
The entrance to Temppeliaukio, set into the rock
The monument pipes from below
The copper dome of Temppeliaukio from outside
The Amos Rex skylights on Lasipalatsi Square
The archipelago from the boat
The shoreline of Vallisaari from the water
A magazine tunnel cut into the rock on the island
The medieval stone church above the town
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An old Citroën parked on the cobbles
The vaulted ceiling inside the cathedral
The votive ship hanging in the nave
The red shore houses along the river
The river and the reeds below the town
The stepped gable of Porvoo Cathedral
A red wooden house beside the church
The whitewashed vaults of the cathedral
A red barn out on the meadow
The separate bell tower, standing apart from the church
The organ and the vaulting above it
Above the old town at Porvoo Thinking about Finland?
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